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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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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 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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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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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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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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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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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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