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. Jackson Browne More Quotes by Jackson Browne More Quotes From Jackson Browne Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons. Jackson Browne alcoholcoffeemorning In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge. Jackson Browne futuretiredwings Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there. Jackson Browne eveningendsdream Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown. Jackson Browne seedsdancer 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. Jackson Browne careerswritingsong 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. Jackson Browne mindfriendshiptwo Oh Lord, are there really people starving still? Jackson Browne specialpeacepeople 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. Jackson Browne struggledreamchildren Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender. Jackson Browne strongprayerart 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 guywritingsong 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. Jackson Browne reachingcommonway 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? Jackson Browne awakeningdreamwant I don't know what happens when people die Jackson Browne listeningsongpeople Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod Jackson Browne gracetimecountry Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do. Jackson Browne mediawatchesart Hunger in the midnight, hunger at the stroke of noon Jackson Browne noonmidnightage The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind. Jackson Browne dancingwindreality 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 partycoupleyears 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. Jackson Browne growing-upbaseballchildren The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage. Jackson Browne minimum-wagelastswork