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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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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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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 followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play 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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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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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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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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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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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 first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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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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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
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