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.

Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.

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?

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.

Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.

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.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.

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.

I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.

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.

Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.

I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.

No matter how fast I run, I can't get away from me.

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.

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.

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

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

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.

Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.

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

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

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.

Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.

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

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.

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.

Talk about celestial bodies.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.

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?

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.

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.

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.

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.