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Billy Joel

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
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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Careers Materials Together
Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Law Night Order
I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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Knows Play Said
I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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Country Political Soldiers Trying
We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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Forever Gone Insanity
I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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Man Rally Sweet Syre Younger
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
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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Human Music Need Same Things
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
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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Alchemist Fun Wizards
Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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Easy Harmonizing Needs Stage
It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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Alright Loses Two
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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Courage Fighting Title
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems
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Goodbye Inspirational Tomorrow
In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
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Heart Past Sanctuary Strong

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