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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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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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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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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 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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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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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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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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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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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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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 want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.
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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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