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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.

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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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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.
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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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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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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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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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 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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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.
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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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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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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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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.
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Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.
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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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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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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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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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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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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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