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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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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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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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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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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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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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