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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.
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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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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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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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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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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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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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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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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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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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Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.
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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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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 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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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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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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