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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.

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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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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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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 find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
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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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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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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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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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