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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
Jackson Browne
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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.
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Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with the grace of God These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east
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Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.
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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
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Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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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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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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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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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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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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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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
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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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People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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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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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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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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