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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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Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age
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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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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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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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Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
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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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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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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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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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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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I never was a very good singer.
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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.
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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 grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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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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