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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.

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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
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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.
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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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Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
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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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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.
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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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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
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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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I never was a very good singer.
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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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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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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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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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I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?
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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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