Jackson Browne quotes

Jackson Browne is an American singer-songwriter and musician known for his introspective lyrics and melodic folk-rock style. His influential albums and songs captured the spirit of the 1970s California music scene. He continues to be celebrated for his thoughtful songwriting and activism. Here are 74 of his quotes:

I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us.

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Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels Drive you crazy.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Let the music keep our spirits high And let the buildings keep our children dry Let creation reveal its secrets by and by.

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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.

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Make it on your own if you think you can. If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What I was seeing wasn't what was happening at all.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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