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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.
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 grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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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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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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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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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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I never was a very good singer.
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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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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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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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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.
Jackson Browne
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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