Quote by Jackson Browne
As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to c

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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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. – Jackson Browne

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Ive 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

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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

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We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. – Lauren Hutton

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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles. – Mary Antin

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You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when youre a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen. – Joe DiMaggio

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My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. Shed put it in the shopping cart and wed walk out. I was raised with that. – Vincent Gallo

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