Jackson Browne Quotes
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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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How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?
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Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.
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More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write the 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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Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.
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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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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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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 wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.
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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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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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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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Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?
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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'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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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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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
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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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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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Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.
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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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I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender.
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Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.
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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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I don't know what happens when people die Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear That I can't sing I can't help listening
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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