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Jackson Browne Inspirational Quotes (55)

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In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.
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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age
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I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?
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I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.
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You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
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But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.
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You've had to struggle, you've had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you've got the right But you go on smiling so clear and so bright
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Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.
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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
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Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
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