Jackson Browne quotes

Now if I seem to be afraid To live the life that I have made in song Well it's just that I've been losing so long. (Jackson Browne)
I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us.
Jackson Browne
Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels Drive you crazy.
Jackson Browne
Well, I'm a standing on a corner In Winslow, Arizona And such a fine sight to see, It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford Slowin' down to have a look at me.
Jackson Browne
Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
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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.
Jackson Browne
Let the music keep our spirits high And let the buildings keep our children dry Let creation reveal its secrets by and by.
Jackson Browne
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through. Looking into their eyes I see them running too.
Jackson Browne
Make it on your own if you think you can. If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
Jackson Browne
These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to do For you And all the times I had the chance to.
Jackson Browne
Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender who started out so young and strong only to surrender. (Jackson Browne)
Keep a fire for the human race Let your prayers go drifting into space You never know what will be coming down Perhaps a better world is drawing near And just as easily it could all disappear.
Jackson Browne
I told her I had always lived alone and I probably always would And all I wanted was my freedom And she told me that she understood But I let her do some of my laundry And she slipped a few meals in between And the next thing I remember, she was all moved in And I was buying her a washing machine.
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It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery As if somehow the years just bow and let that young girl go free I thought I was a child, until you turned and smiled.
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Oh people, look around you, the signs are everywhere You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one to care You're lost inside your houses,theres no time to find you now.
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Maybe people only ask you how you're doing 'Cos that's easier than letting on how little they could care.
Jackson Browne
What I was seeing wasn't what was happening at all.
Jackson Browne
Hold a place for the human race Keep it open wide Give it time to fall or climb But let the time decide Sometimes you wonder what's in this for you But you wait and you see' Cause its all you can do Just to hold on Hold on hold out, hold on.
Jackson Browne
These days I sit on cornerstones And count the time in quarter-tones to ten, my friend Don't confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them.
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Well I'm running down the road Tryin' to loosen my load, I've got seven women on my mind, Four that wanna own me, Two that wanna stone me, One says she's a friend of mine.
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You could hold her tight with all your might but she'd slip through your arms like the wind and be back in flight back into the night where you might never see her again. (Jackson Browne)
And their feathers once so fine grew torn and tattered And in the end they traded their tired wings For the resignation that living brings.
Jackson Browne
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
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
Jackson Browne
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