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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 followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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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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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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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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Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.
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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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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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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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