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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.
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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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 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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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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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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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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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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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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