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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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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 followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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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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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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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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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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I never was a very good singer.
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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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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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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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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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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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