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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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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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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 taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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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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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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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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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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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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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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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 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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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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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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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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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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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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