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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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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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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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I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.
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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'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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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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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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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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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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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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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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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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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 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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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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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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The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
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And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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