Jackson Browne Quotes - Page 2

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.

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.

Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.

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.

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.

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?

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.

More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write the songs.

I don't know what happens when people die Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear That I can't sing I can't help listening

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

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

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.

So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff.

Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with the grace of God These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Hunger in the banquet, hunger in the bride and groom Hunger on the TV, hunger on the printed page And there's a God-sized hunger underneath the questions of the age

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

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

People stand themselves next to the righteous They believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one

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.