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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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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with the grace of God These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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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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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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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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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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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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