Jackson Browne Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.”

“I never was a very good singer.”

“I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.”

“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.”

“I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.”

“I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.”