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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.

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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Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.
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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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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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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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I never was a very good singer.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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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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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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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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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 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 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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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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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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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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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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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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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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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