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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young pe

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

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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

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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. – Jackson Browne

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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business – writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played. – Jackson Browne

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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. – Robert Orben

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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? – Charles de Gaulle

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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didnt eat lunch. – A. N. Wilson

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