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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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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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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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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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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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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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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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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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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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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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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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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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Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
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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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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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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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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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Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.
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Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
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