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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.
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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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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Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
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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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Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow
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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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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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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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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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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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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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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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