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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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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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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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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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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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I never was a very good singer.
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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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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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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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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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 want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.
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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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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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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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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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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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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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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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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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