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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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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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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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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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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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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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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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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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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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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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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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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.
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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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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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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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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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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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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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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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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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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
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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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