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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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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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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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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.
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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?
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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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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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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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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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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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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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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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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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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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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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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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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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