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Billy Joel

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
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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Distance Long Night Stimulations
There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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Kindness People Reality
The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
BILLY JOEL

Country Education Helped People Wall
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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Crazy Mind People
Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
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Everybody Famous Really Town
Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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Call Fool Moments
You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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Hard Old Rock Roll
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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Criticism Honor Praise Received Sometimes
In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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Birthday Business Jobs Crazy Song
I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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About Affecting Going Remember Song Valley
I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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Mets Thinking Type
We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Humans Making Mistakes Suppose
I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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Parent Piano Play Years
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
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.
BILLY JOEL

Cheer Limos People

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