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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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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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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
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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 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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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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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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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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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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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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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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