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In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.
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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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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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 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'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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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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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 never was a very good singer.
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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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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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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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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'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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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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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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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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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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Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
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