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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.
Jackson Browne
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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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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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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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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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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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In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.
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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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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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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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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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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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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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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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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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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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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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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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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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