Quote

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.

Jackson Browne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
Composer
Environmentalist
Guitarist
Keyboardist
Manufacturer
Musician
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Clyde Jackson Browne
Find
Brilliance
Might
Genius
Mind
Higher
Would
Purpose
Think
Times
Thinking
Use
Song
Better

More quotes by Jackson Browne

Image
But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.
Jackson Browne
Image
Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
Jackson Browne
Image
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.
Jackson Browne
Image
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.
Jackson Browne
Image
Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
Jackson Browne
Image
Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
Jackson Browne
Image
Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age
Jackson Browne
Image
Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
Jackson Browne
Image
When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.
Jackson Browne
Image
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
Jackson Browne
Image
I never was a very good singer.
Jackson Browne
Image
Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
Jackson Browne
Image
Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.
Jackson Browne
Image
Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.
Jackson Browne
Image
I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.
Jackson Browne
Image
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
Image
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.
Jackson Browne
Image
I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
Jackson Browne
Image
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.
Jackson Browne
Image
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?
Jackson Browne