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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.

Billy Joel

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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Club Jobs Musician
I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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Angry Discontented Regret Relationship
She’s got a smile that heals me.
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Compliment Heal Smile
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 should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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Relationship Sorry Strong
I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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Country Mass Problems Thinking
I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Boredom Children Reality
We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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Alcohol Drug Soul
Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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Everybody Loneliness Love Somehow
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Heart Loud Musician Voices
every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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Life Relationship Rose
I’ve crashed my car three times.
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Believe Times Car Three
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
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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Humorous Men People
When 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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Musician Pursue Young
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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Mean Opinion Singers

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