Jackson Browne Quotes

Let the disappointments pass Let the laughter fill your glass Let the illusions last until they shatter Whatever you might hope to find among the thoughts that crowd your mind There won't be many that ever really matter.

Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.

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.

Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.

Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.

Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.

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?

We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.

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.

No matter how fast I run, I can't get away from me.

I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.

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

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.

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.

Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.

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.

The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found.

In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.

I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.