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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.

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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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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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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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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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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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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 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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Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.
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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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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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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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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 want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?
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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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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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