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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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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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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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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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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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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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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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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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It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
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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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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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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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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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