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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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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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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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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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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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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 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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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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