Jackson Browne

“אל תיתן לצלצול הטלפון להפריע לך ברגעים חשובים. מי שמחפש אותך יחייג שנית.”

“אף פעם אל תפסיק להתלהב. הגישה החיובית היא סם החיים.”

“אל תבזבז זמן ועצבים על תשובות לאלו שמתחו עליך ביקורת קטלנית!”

“לטפח שאיפות גדולות, אבל ליהנות גם מדברים קטנים.”

“אל תנאם לילדך על יושר, אנושיות ומוסר. תן להם דוגמאות מהחיים, מעצמך.”

“אל תרים ידיים ואל תוותר. ניסים אמיתיים התרחשו לא רק בימים ההם, הם מתרחשים גם בזמן הזה.”

“במלחמה, תהיה הראשון שמכה, ותכה חזק”

“אף פעם אל תמנע ממישהו את התקווה. ייתכן שהיא כל מה שיש לו.”

“English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.”

“If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”