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Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age
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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Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
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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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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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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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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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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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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 taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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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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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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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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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I never was a very good singer.
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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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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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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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