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Jackson Browne Quotes
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. Ill just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves. - Jackson Browne Quotes
And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because thats 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. - Jackson Browne Quotes
And some of the songs I wrote when I was really young are some of my best-known songs, and other people still sing em, I still sing em. - Jackson Browne Quotes
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. - Jackson Browne Quotes
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. - Jackson Browne Quotes
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if Im 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. - Jackson Browne Quotes
I never was a very good singer. - Jackson Browne Quotes
I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight. - Jackson Browne Quotes
I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it. - Jackson Browne Quotes
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar. - Jackson Browne Quotes
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. - Jackson Browne Quotes
Id 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. - Jackson Browne Quotes
Ive 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. - Jackson Browne Quotes
Ive 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. - Jackson Browne Quotes
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. - Jackson Browne Quotes
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isnt that the banjo players Porsche parked outside? - Jackson Browne Quotes
Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, thats not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I dont know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I dont have any pressure on me. - Jackson Browne Quotes
Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so theyre really mean to each other about who makes what. - Jackson Browne Quotes
No matter how close to yours anothers steps have grown, in the end there is one dance youll do alone. - Jackson Browne Quotes
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. - Jackson Browne Quotes
People were learning to play traditional music, folk songs, and thats a big field - thats everything from blues to Appalachian music. - Jackson Browne Quotes
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 Quotes
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. Lets face it. - Jackson Browne Quotes
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 its like to be going through all the things that people go through in life. - Jackson Browne Quotes
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. - Jackson Browne Quotes
Thats 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 Quotes
The biggest influence? Ive had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs. - Jackson Browne Quotes
The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, thats probably my favorite thing that Ive done. - Jackson Browne Quotes
We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they dont have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And thats how they do it. - Jackson Browne Quotes
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. - Jackson Browne Quotes
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