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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.

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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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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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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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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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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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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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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
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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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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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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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Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.
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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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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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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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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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Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow
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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 never was a very good singer.
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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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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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