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I'm not Amish, but I grew up in that same area of Pennsylvania and became very attracted to the inherent strictness and uniformity of that community.


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JACKSON BROWNE And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstr...
JACKSON BROWNE Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, peopl...
JACKSON BROWNE I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's h...
JACKSON BROWNE As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mand...
JACKSON BROWNE Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicia...
JACKSON BROWNE I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a hous...
JACKSON BROWNE When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of ye...
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