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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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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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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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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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.
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
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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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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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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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I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.
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I never was a very good singer.
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Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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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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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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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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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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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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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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