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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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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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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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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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You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.
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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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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 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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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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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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