Jackson Browne quotes - page 2

I thought I knew where I was going, until I heard your laughter flowing And came upon the wisdom in your eyes. (Jackson Browne)
Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer, I was taken by a photograph of you. There were one or two I know That you would have liked a little more, But they didn't show your spirit quite as true. You were turning round to see who was behind you And I took your childish laughter by surprise, And at the moment that my camera happened to find you There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes.
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You love the thunder and you love the rain You know your hunger like you know your name I know you wonder how you ever came To be a woman in love with a man in search of the flame.
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I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on.
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In the morning when I closed my eyesYou were sleeping in paradiseAnd while the room was growing lightI was holding still with all my might.
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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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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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Someone's gonna have to explain it to me I'm not sure what it means My baby's feelin' funny in the morning She's having trouble getting into her jeans.
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Everybody's just waiting to hear from the one Who can give them the answers And lead them back to that place in the warmth of the sun Where sweet childhood still dances Who'll come along And hold out that strong But gentle fathers hand?
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You never knew what I loved in you I dont know what you loved in me Maybe the picture of somebody you were hoping I might be.
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Now roll them cases out and lift them amps, Haul them trusses down and get 'em up them ramps. Cause when it comes to moving me, You know you guys are the champs. But when that last guitar's been packed away, You know that I still want to play. So just make sure you got it all set to go Before you come for my piano. (Jackson Browne)
Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.
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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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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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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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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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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 never was a very good singer.
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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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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)
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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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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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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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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