Jackson Browne Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Talk about celestial bodies.

People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.

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.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

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

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?

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

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

When you've found another soul who see's in to your own...take good care of each other..and remember to be kind.

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

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

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'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

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.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.

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

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

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

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

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

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