Jackson Browne Quotes - Page 4

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

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.

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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