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Clyde Jackson Browne is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded songs such as "These Days", "The Pretender", "Running on Empty", "Lawyers in Love", "Doctor My Eyes", "Take It Easy", "For a Rocker", and "Somebody's Baby". In 2004, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and given an honorary doctorate of music by Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked him as 37th in its list of the "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time". Wikipedia  

✵ 9. October 1948
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Famous Jackson Browne Quotes

“You love the thunder and you love the rain
You know your hunger like you know your name
I know you wonder how you ever came
To be a woman in love with a man in search of the flame”

Jackson Browne

You Love the Thunder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Love_the_Thunder (1977)

“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.”

Jackson Browne

Running on Empty

“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.”

Jackson Browne

These Days

“I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us”

Jackson Browne

Discussing the election of Barack Obama and his support for the new American President with Dave fanning http://www.rte.ie/arts/2009/0204/drivetimewithdave.html

“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.”

Jackson Browne

Take It Easy (co-written with Glenn Frey, 1971-1972), from For Everyman; previously recorded on The Eagles' album Eagles (1972)

Jackson Browne Quotes about time

“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.”

Jackson Browne

These Days (ca. 1964-1965), from For Everyman (1973); previously recorded by Nico, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Tom Rush, Kenny Loggins, Iain Matthews, and Mates of State

“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”

Jackson Browne

Hold On Hold Out (1979)

“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”

Jackson Browne

Rock Me on the Water (1972)

Jackson Browne Quotes

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

Jackson Browne

For a Dancer

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

Jackson Browne

For Everyman, from For Everyman (1973)

Understanding , Thinking

“Now if I seem to be afraid
To live the life that I have made in song
Well it's just that I've been losing so long.”

Jackson Browne

These Days

Life

“Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender
who started out so young and strong only to surrender”

Jackson Browne

The Pretender (1976)

Strong

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

Jackson Browne

Running on Empty, from Running on Empty (1977)

“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.”

Jackson Browne

Take It Easy

Girl

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

Jackson Browne

The Pretender from The Pretender (1976)

Dreams , Hope

“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”

Jackson Browne

The Pretender (1976)

Love , Money , Lie , Soul

“In the morning when I closed my eyesYou were sleeping in paradiseAnd while the room was growing lightI was holding still with all my might”

Jackson Browne

Call it a Loan (Browne, David Perry Lindley) Hold Out (1980)

Sleep

“You could hold her tight with all your might but she'd slip through your arms like the wind and be back in flight back into the night where you might never see her again.”

Jackson Browne

That Girl Could Sing (1980)

Night

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

Jackson Browne

Before the Deluge (1974) from For Everyman (1973)

Music , Secret , Children

“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”

Jackson Browne

Before the Deluge (1974) from For Everyman (1973)

“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”

Jackson Browne

For a Dancer (1974)

World , Drawing

“You never knew what I loved in you
I dont know what you loved in me
Maybe the picture of somebody you were hoping I might be”

Jackson Browne

Late for the Sky from Late for the Sky (1974)

Love , Making love , Hope

“Everybody's just waiting to hear from the one
Who can give them the answers
And lead them back to that place in the warmth of the sun
Where sweet childhood still dances
Who'll come along
And hold out that strong
But gentle fathers hand?”

Jackson Browne

Source: For Everyman, from For Everyman (1973)

Childhood , Waiting , Sun , Strong

“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”

Jackson Browne

Ready or Not For Everyman (1973)

Freedom

“Someone's gonna have to explain it to me
I'm not sure what it means
My baby's feelin' funny in the morning
She's having trouble getting into her jeans”

Jackson Browne

Ready or Not For Everyman (1973)

Baby

“I thought I knew where I was going, until I heard your laughter flowing
And came upon the wisdom in your eyes”

Jackson Browne

I Thought I was Child For Everyman (1973)

Wisdom , Laughter

“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”

Jackson Browne

I Thought I was Child For Everyman (1973)

Girl , Smile

“Maybe people only ask you how you're doing
'Cos that's easier than letting on how little they could care.”

Jackson Browne

"The Late Show"
("The Late Show" on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW5_Wr9sWeY
Late for the Sky (1974)

People

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

Jackson Browne

"Fountain of Sorrow"
Late for the Sky (1974)

“Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer,
I was taken by a photograph of you.
There were one or two I know
That you would have liked a little more,
But they didn't show your spirit quite as true.
You were turning round to see who was behind you
And I took your childish laughter by surprise,
And at the moment that my camera happened to find you
There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes.”

Jackson Browne

"Fountain of Sorrow"
("Fountain of Sorrow" on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaoHbNNK58k
Late for the Sky (1974)

Laughter

“Now roll them cases out and lift them amps,
Haul them trusses down and get 'em up them ramps.
Cause when it comes to moving me,
You know you guys are the champs.
But when that last guitar's been packed away,
You know that I still want to play.
So just make sure you got it all set to go
Before you come for my piano.”

Jackson Browne

Source: Running on Empty (1977), "The Load-Out"

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