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Jackson Browne, born on October 9, 1948, is a renowned American singer-songwriter. His musical style blends folk, rock, and pop elements, and he is known for his emotive voice and insightful lyrics. Browne's musical career began in the late 1960s, and he reached the peak of his career in the mid-1970s with hits such as 'Doctor My Eyes' and 'The Pretender'.

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“Give up your heart and you lose your way Trusting another to feel that way. Give up your heart and you find yourself living for something in somebody else. Sometimes you wonder what happens to love. Sometimes the touch of a friend is enough.”

Friendship Sacrifice

Book:Jackson Browne -- Anthology: Easy Guitar

Source: Jackson Browne -- Anthology: Easy Guitar

“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.”

Men Children Dream Light Fighting Waiting Church Struggle Longing Profound Caught Rings Ice Pounds Bells Cream Traffic Veteran Ice Cream Junk Sirens Vendors Traffic Light Church Bells

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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”

Fighting Understanding Compassion Laughing Struggle Clear Goes On Sight Understanding And Compassion

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“The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.”

Firsts Lasts Work Minimum Minimum Wage

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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.”

Ends Moments Future Tired Wings Fragile Resignation Glitter Premonition Rouge Deluge

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“I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us”

Years Behinds Glad

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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.”

Ifs Long Made Seems Losing Live Life

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“Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.”

Easy Sound Crazy Take It Easy

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“Well, I'm a standing on a cornerIn Winslow, ArizonaAnd such a fine sight to see,It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed FordSlowin' down to have a look at me.”

Wells Looks Girl Lord Fine Standing Sight Look At Me

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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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“Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.”

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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.”

Knows Ends Dream Evening Hopes And Dreams Pretender

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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.”

Believe Heart May Has Beens Soul Lying Struggle Claims Aim Lays Idiot Ads Could Have Been

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“I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on”

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“How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?”

Long Asks Dying Cry Someone Dying

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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.”

People Thinking Knows World Want Years Children Whole Used Growing Up Fate Growing Player Policy This World Baseball Twenties Our Children Contracts Baseball Player

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“Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow”

Water Sea Rocks Brows

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“The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found.”

Firsts Has Beens Made I Can Home Kids America Found Left Peace Known Land Sweet Letting Go Conscience Awake Land Of The Free Can't Let Go

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“How long will it be 'till we've turned To the tasks and the skills That we'll have to have learned If we're going to find our place in the future And have something to offer Where this planet's concerned?”

Ifs Long Planets Offers Skills Concerned Tasks

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“People stand themselves next to the righteous They believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one”

People World Believe Country Home Next Speak Term Sun Violence Rounds Justify Divides Righteous Spinning

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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.”

Years Gone Fields Summer Wheels Looking Back Rushing Years Gone By

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“Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?”

Would Be Language Player Heard Sentences English Language Banjos Porsche Banjo Players

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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.”

People Real Ends Country Young Realizing Students College Our Country College Students

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“As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.”

Kind Political Calling South Celebrate Release Birthday Prisoner Concerts South Africa Nelson Political Prisoners

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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.”

Known Steps Dancing Dance

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“Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.”

Politics Crazy Forgotten

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“It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.”

Knows Way My Own Common Circumstances Reaching Songwriting

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“So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff.”

People Knows Writing Wells Able Stuff Audience Subjects Example Embrace Get Away Songwriting Peter Gabriel

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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.”

Giving Play Wanted Next Father Lost Interest Ready Give Me Guitar Saved Birthday My Birthday Playing Guitar Banjos

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“When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember to be kind.”

Kind Soul Care Remember Found Be Kind

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“Let the disappointments pass Let the laughter fill your glass Let the illusions last until they shatter Whatever you might hope to find among the thoughts that crowd your mind There won't be many that ever really matter.”

Mind Matter Might Lasts Laughter Illusion Glasses Disappointment Crowds

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“We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.”

May Death Winning Loses

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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.”

Way Play Wanted Together Perfect Dad My Dad Teeth Idols Trumpets Armstrong

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“I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.”

Reading Grew Grew Up Mark Reading Books Reading Shakespeare

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“I never was a very good singer.”

Very Good Singers

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“I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.”

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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.”

Ifs Trying Looks Book Lying Morning Exercise Magazines Get Up Tunes Listening To Music Stretching Love To Read Tune Up

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“I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.”

Play Wanted Taught Piano

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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.”

Ideas Song House Fire Mines Died No Idea Dancer Burned Very Sad Saunas

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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?”

Knows Want Dream Greater Awakening

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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.”

Ifs Play Wanted Music Study Dad Guitar My Dad Piano

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“I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.”

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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.”

Knows Real Bears Easier Real Friends

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“Say it isn't true That there always has been and always will be war Say it isn't true And apart from all the fine things that man has struggled for Say it isn't true There always has been and always will be war”

Men Has Beens War Fine Anti War No War Fine Things

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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.”

Way Feels Ideas Done Lasts My Favorite Favorites Things

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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”

People Knows Trying I Can Hard Helping Seems Happens Song Dies Listening Ears

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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.”

People Way Feels Writing Song Careers Function Bread Holistic

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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.”

Ends Matter Steps Solitude

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“Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.”

Knows Play Know How Source Pressure Instruments Studios Relaxation

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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.”

Way Doe Important Break Generations Important Things Break Up

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About the Author

Born: October 9, 1948
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 98

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