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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
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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I never was a very good singer.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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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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Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.
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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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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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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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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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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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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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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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