I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
BILLY JOELSomeday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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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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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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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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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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