You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Quote by Jackson Browne

Topics: Jackson Browne Quotes

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but...

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but...

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call...

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call...

You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might...

You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might...

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began...

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began...

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the...

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the...

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you...

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you...

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying...

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying...

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to...

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to...

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own...

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own...

I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.

I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.

I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking...

I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking...

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things,...

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things,...

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says...

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says...

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the...

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the...

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be:...

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be:...

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the...

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the...

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what...

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what...

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want...

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want...

Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.

Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.