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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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Clyde Jackson Browne
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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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Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.
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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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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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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 taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
Jackson Browne
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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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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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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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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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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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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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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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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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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Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
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I never was a very good singer.
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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
Jackson Browne
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
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.
Jackson Browne
