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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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Clyde Jackson Browne
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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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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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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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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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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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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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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.
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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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Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
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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 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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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 followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.
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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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