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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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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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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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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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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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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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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with the grace of God These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east
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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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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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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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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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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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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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