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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.

Billy Joel

Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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Blood Hot Writing
Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Moment Now South Trying
Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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Knows Right Wrong
Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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Back Music Romance Together
Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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Madness Philosophy Reality Sadness
I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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Consistency Craftmanship Long Piano
Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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Allowed Mistakes Sometimes Takes
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.
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Competition Crazy Poor School Teacher
You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Beer Relationship Yoga
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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Mistakes Originals Theory
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
We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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Forever Gone Insanity
There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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Life Other Stories Story
Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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Anymore Familiar Fashion Hair Love Please
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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Careers Materials Together
Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Law Night Order

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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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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