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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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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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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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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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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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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play 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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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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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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I never was a very good singer.
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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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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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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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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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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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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.
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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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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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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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