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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.
Jackson Browne
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Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.
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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'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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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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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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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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Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
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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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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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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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I never was a very good singer.
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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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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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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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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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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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