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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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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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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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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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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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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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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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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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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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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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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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