Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
BILLY JOELWhen I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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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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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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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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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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