Jackson Browne Quotes

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

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• I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

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• I never was a very good singer.

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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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• I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

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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.

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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.

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• Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I’ll just say this really quickly – they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

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Jackson Browne (30)

Birth:	9th October, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer

About

Clyde Jackson Browne was born in Heidelberg, Germany. He is a German-born American singer, songwriter, politicl activist and musician(pianist and guitarist) who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States. His albums list shown below: Jackson Browne, For Everyman, Late for the Sky, The Pretender, Running on Empty(Live album), Hold Out, Lawyers in Love, Lives in the Balance, World in Motion, I'm Alive, Looking East, The Naked Ride Home, Time the Conqueror, and Standing in the Breach. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, he has written and recorded songs such as "These Days", "The Pretender", "Running on Empty", "Lawyers in Love", "Doctor My Eyes", "Take It Easy", "For a Rocker", and "Somebody's Baby". In 2004, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2007, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Music by Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.

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