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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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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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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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I never was a very good singer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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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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I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.
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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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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow
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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 taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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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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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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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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