Quote

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.

Jackson Browne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
Composer
Environmentalist
Guitarist
Keyboardist
Manufacturer
Musician
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Clyde Jackson Browne
Writing
Learning
Every
Turns
Things
Making
Lucrative
Time
Song
Folk
Business
Folks
Part
Played
Music
Paid
Play
Gets

More quotes by Jackson Browne

Image
Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
Jackson Browne
Image
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.
Jackson Browne
Image
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.
Jackson Browne
Image
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.
Jackson Browne
Image
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
Jackson Browne
Image
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.
Jackson Browne
Image
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.
Jackson Browne
Image
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
Image
Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow
Jackson Browne
Image
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.
Jackson Browne
Image
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.
Jackson Browne
Image
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.
Jackson Browne
Image
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
Image
I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
Jackson Browne
Image
Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
Jackson Browne
Image
I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
Jackson Browne
Image
Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
Jackson Browne
Image
Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
Jackson Browne
Image
Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.
Jackson Browne
Image
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.
Jackson Browne