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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.
Jackson Browne
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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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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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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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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 taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play 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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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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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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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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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 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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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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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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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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And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.
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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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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
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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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Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with the grace of God These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east
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