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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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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.
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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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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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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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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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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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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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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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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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