Jackson Browne Quotes
Top 68 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Do the steps that you've been shown,
by everyone you've ever known,
until the dance becomes your very own.
by everyone you've ever known,
until the dance becomes your very own.
These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.
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.
When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.
I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.
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?
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 get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.
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.
But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.
Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.
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
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water
I'll get down to the sea somehow
How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?
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.
Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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.
Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.
When you've found another soul who see's in to your own ... take good care of each other..and remember to be kind..
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.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost.
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.
Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
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?
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.
I'm losing touch with reality and I'm almost out of blow. It's such a fine line, I hate to see it go. Cocaine, runnin' all 'round my brain.
Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.
I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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.
They say it can't be won,
The way the game is run.
But if you choose to stay
You wind up playin' anyway.
The way the game is run.
But if you choose to stay
You wind up playin' anyway.
No one ever talks about their feelings anyway
Without dressing them in dreams and laughter
I guess it's just too painful otherwise
Without dressing them in dreams and laughter
I guess it's just too painful otherwise
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.