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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble

Billy Joel

My songs are like my kids.
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Kids Like Song
Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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Drinking Loneliness
I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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Reading Song Writing
I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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Age Entertainer Idols Magazines Money
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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Causes Giving Musician
Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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Advice Answers Waiting
Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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Love Wasted Time
There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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Couple Hard Times Years
Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Law Night Order
Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
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Everybody Famous Really Town
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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Musician Safety Wire
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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Book Country Kids
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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Goodbye Life Series
Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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Baby Country Goodbye Hollywood
I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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Faces Names Rock Roll
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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Art Honesty Kidding Part Truth
Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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Crucial Inspiration Living Make
There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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Islands Men Sea
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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Courage Fighting Title
You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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Made Mistake Reality
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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Giving Hate People
I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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Classical People Rolling Stones Use
you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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Crazy May might
In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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Evil Home Open Phones Window
I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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Education Fire Long
You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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Hard Mistakes Reputation Times
Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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Discounts Giving Reality

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