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

Jackson Browne

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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Guitarist
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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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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Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
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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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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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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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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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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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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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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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.
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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.
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