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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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You've had to struggle, you've had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you've got the right But you go on smiling so clear and so bright
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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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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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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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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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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 followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
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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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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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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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Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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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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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
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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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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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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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Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.
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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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