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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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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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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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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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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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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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 followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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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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