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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?”
-- Jackson Browne

#Player #Porsche #Would Be
“Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Philosophy #Trying #Easy
“I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again”
-- Jackson Browne

#Time #Morning #Eye
“No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Matter #Steps #Ends
“The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Reality #Wind #Dancing
“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.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Mean #Musician #Kind
“You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Generations #Something New
“Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Inspirational #Forget #Used
“That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Song #Writing #Play
“Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Crazy #Forgotten
“So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Song #Writing #Mean
“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.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Friendship #Two #Mind
“I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Sensitive #Partners #Insensitive
“When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Couple #Kids #Years
“I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independentâ€s Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Independent #Voice #Fans
“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.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Song #Writing #Guy
“My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Girl #School #Age
“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.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Years #Fifteen #Born
“I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Friendship #Running #Eye
“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”
-- Jackson Browne

#Age #Midnight #Noon
“These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Sadness #Thinking #Chance
“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.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Country #Real #College
“I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Running #White #Lines
“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.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Writing #People #Gabriel
“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.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Birthday #Father #Play
“When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember to be kind..”
-- Jackson Browne

#Soul #Care #Be Kind
“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.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Laughter #Disappointment #Glasses
“Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Falling In Love #Fall #Love You
“People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Reality #People #Looks
“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.”
-- Jackson Browne

#Couple #Party #Years

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