Jackson Browne Quotes

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.

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

Well, I'm a standing on a cornerIn Winslow, ArizonaAnd such a fine sight to see,It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed FordSlowin' down to have a look at me.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.

How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?

I never was a very good singer.

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

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent”s Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.

Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.

Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.

I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

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

You've had to struggle, you've had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you've got the right But you go on smiling so clear and so bright

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember to be kind..