Jackson Browne Quotes

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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?
• 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…
• 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…
• Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember to be kind..
• We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
• 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…
• I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
• I never was a very good singer.
• I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
• 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…
• I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
• 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…
• 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?
• 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…
• I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.
• 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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