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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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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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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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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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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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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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I never was a very good singer.
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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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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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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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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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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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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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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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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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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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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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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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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.
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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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