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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.
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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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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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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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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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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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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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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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 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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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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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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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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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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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 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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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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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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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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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
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