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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.

Billy Joel

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.
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Empathy People Thinking
You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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May Philosophy Right
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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Mistakes Originals Theory
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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Club Jobs Musician
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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Change Good Times Hair Love Trying
I watched the mighty skyline fall
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Fall Mighty Skylines Watched
Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Moment Now South Trying
You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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Cake Loneliness Love Mistakes Smile
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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Food Junk People Sold
I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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Faces Names Rock Roll
I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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Reading Song Writing
Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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Advice Answers Waiting
No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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Education Endless Same Years
I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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Education Graduate School Self Teacher
If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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Dream Imagination Mind
Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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Crucial Inspiration Living Make

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