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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.
Jackson Browne
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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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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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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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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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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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People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
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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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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.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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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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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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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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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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