I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
BILLY JOELRock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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