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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.
Jackson Browne
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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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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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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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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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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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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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People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.
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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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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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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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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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'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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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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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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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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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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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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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 my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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