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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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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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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.
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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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