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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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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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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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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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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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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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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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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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Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.
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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.
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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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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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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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