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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.

Billy Joel

Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
BILLY JOEL

Dirty Found Quality You
There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
BILLY JOEL

Butter Peanut Sex Witty
I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
BILLY JOEL

Mets Thinking Type
What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
BILLY JOEL

Smart Unanswered Questions
Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
BILLY JOEL

Empathy People Thinking
But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
BILLY JOEL

Help Point Promised Something Try
I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
BILLY JOEL

Active Issues Mind Writing
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.
BILLY JOEL

Change Good Times Hair Love Trying
This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
BILLY JOEL

Moments Past Relentless
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.’
BILLY JOEL

Man Rally Sweet Syre Younger
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.
BILLY JOEL

Mean Opinion Singers
Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
BILLY JOEL

Competition Crazy Poor School Teacher
Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
BILLY JOEL

Although Needs Romantic Tonight Want
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
BILLY JOEL

Book Country Kids
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.
BILLY JOEL

Around Long Sit Song Writing
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
BILLY JOEL

Musician Position Thinking Unlikely

I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.

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