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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.

Billy Joel

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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Cold Junk Punk Rocks Roll
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Distance Much Resistance Too
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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Arabia Country Lawrence Place
You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
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Ambition Dream Passion
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
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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Musician Position Thinking Unlikely
I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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Country Musical Tragedy
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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Art Created Looks Portraits
When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
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Fortunately Jobs Missing Mistake
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 keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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Boys Drinking Inspirational
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
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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Food Junk People Sold
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
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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Goodbye Life Series
Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Law Night Order

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