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I never was a very good singer.
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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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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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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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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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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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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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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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.
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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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