Jackson Browne Quotes

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don’t have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that’s how they do it.

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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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• 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.

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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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, I’d like to study piano.

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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.

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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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• 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.

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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?

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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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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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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