Jackson Browne Quotes - Page 2

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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

  Lying, Believe, Struggle

  "Song: "The Pretender"". 1976.

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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.

  Jackson Browne

  Break Up, Important, Doe

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• You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.

  Jackson Browne

  Song, Thinking, Mind

  Song: Say It Isn't True, 1983

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• 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

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• Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.

  Jackson Browne

  Dream, Children, Struggle

  Song: The Pretender, Album: The Pretender, 1976

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• Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

  Jackson Browne

  Dream, Evening, Ends

  Song: The Pretender, Album: The Pretender, 1976

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• 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

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• And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

  Jackson Browne

  Change, Past, Would Be

  Song: Fountain Of Sorrow, Album: Late for the Sky, 1974

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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.

  Jackson Browne

  Ideas, Done, Way

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• In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.

  Jackson Browne

  Future, Tired, Wings

  Song: Before The Deluge, 1974

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• I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.

  Jackson Browne

  Honesty, Trying, Way

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• More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write the songs.

  Jackson Browne

  Song, Writing, Careers

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• Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.

  Jackson Browne

  Morning, Coffee, Alcohol

  Song: The Road, Album: Running on Empty, 1977

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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.

  Jackson Browne

  Country, Real, College

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• I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?

  Jackson Browne

  Dream, Want, Awakening

  Song: The Pretender, Album: The Pretender, 1976

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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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  Two, People, Mind Your Own Business

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• I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

  Jackson Browne

  Reading, Grew Up, Mark

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• It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.

  Jackson Browne

  Way, Common, Reaching

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• When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.

  Jackson Browne

  Light, Hands, Looks

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• I don't know what happens when people die
  Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
  It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
  That I can't sing
  I can't help listening

  Jackson Browne

  Song, People, Listening

  Song: For A Dancer, Album: Late for the Sky, 1974

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• 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

  Song: Looking East, Album: Looking East, 1996

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• 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, Example

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• Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod
  And where power and position are equated with the grace of God
  These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast
  From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east

  Jackson Browne

  Country, Time, Grace

  Song: Looking East, Album: Looking East, 1996

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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.

  Jackson Browne

  Couple, Party, Years

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• Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

  Jackson Browne

  Art, Media, Watches

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