Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad. "
Jackson Browne
Down
Sad
Song
Related Quotes:
" I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it. "
Jackson Browne
Myself
Because
Taught
" 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. "
Jackson Browne
Always
Someone
Musicians
" 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? "
Jackson Browne
English Language
Say
Outside
" 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
Great
Doing
Beginning
" 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. "
Jackson Browne
Time
Me
Lost
" I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it. "
Jackson Browne
Song
World
Believe
" 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. "
Jackson Browne
Take
Up
You
" 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. "
Jackson Browne
You
Trumpet
Years
" 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. "
Jackson Browne
College
People
Music
" 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
Roots
Park
People
" That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things. "
Jackson Browne
Doing
Generation
Important
" I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. "
Jackson Browne
Reading
Twain
Up
" 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
Music
Listen
" I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive. "
Jackson Browne
Things
You
Partners
" 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. "
Jackson Browne
Money
Music
Time
" 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. "
Jackson Browne
Know
Pressure
Me
" I never was a very good singer. "
Jackson Browne
Singer
Good
Very
" The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs. "
Jackson Browne
Me
Different
Influence
" I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight. "
Jackson Browne
About
Trumpet
Started
" 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. "
Jackson Browne
Perfect
Play
Thought
" 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. "
Jackson Browne
Friend
Writing
My Own
" No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone. "
Jackson Browne
Alone
Matter
Dance
" 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. "
Jackson Browne
Life
Play
Mean
" 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, I'd like to study piano. "
Jackson Browne
Now
Guitar
Cool