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• 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

  Jackson Browne

  Rocks, Sea, Water

  Song: Rock Me On The Water, Album: Jackson Browne, 1972

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• 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.

  Jackson Browne

  Meals, Next, Remember

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• Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

  Jackson Browne

  Peace, People, Special

  Song: The Fuse, Album: The Pretender, 1976

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

  Jackson Browne

  Falling In Love, Fall, Love You

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• 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.

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  Birthday, Political, Calling

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• 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

  Couple, Kids, Years

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• I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm 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

  Morning, Lying, Book

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• 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.

  Jackson Browne

  Hate, Reality, Blow

  Song: Cocaine, Album: Running on Empty, 1977

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

  Jackson Browne

  Play, Piano, Taught

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• I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

  Jackson Browne

  Eight, Trumpets

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

  Jackson Browne

  Jeans, Rejection, Trouble

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• 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.

  Jackson Browne

  Sunday, Nuclear Disarmament, Play

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• How long will it be 'till we've turned To the tasks and the skills That we'll have to have learned If we're going to find our place in the future And have something to offer Where this planet's concerned?

  Jackson Browne

  Skills, Long, Tasks

  Song: How Long, Album: World in Motion, 1989

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• 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.

  Jackson Browne

  Independent, Voice, Fans

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

  Jackson Browne

  Long, Dying, Cry

  Song: How Long, Album: World in Motion, 1989

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• I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us

  Jackson Browne

  Years, Glad, Behinds

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• I never was a very good singer.

  Jackson Browne

  Singers, Very Good

  "Catching up with singer/songwriter Egon Danielson". Interview with Todd Houston, rockrivertimes.com. October 25, 2016.

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• 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

  Years, Fifteen, More Money

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

  Jackson Browne

  Girl, School, Age

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

  Jackson Browne

  Thinking, Ifs

  Song: For Everyman, Album: For Everyman, 1973

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• 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.

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  Dad, Idols, Play

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• 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.

  Jackson Browne

  Girl, Sight, Looks

  "Song: Take It Easy (Album: Eagles)". 1972.

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