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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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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 never was a very good singer.
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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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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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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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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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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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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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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.
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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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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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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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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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Let the disappointments pass Let the laughter fill your glass Let the illusions last until they shatter Whatever you might hope to find among the thoughts that crowd your mind There won't be many that ever really matter.
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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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