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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

Billy Joel

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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Kids Pianist Song Songwriter Writing
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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Honesty Insanity Lonely
Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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Anybody Country Good Life
I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Bring Care Fool Lesser
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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Demand Music Successful
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Musician Pursue Young
So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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Baby Faces Goodbye Hollywood Life Many Series
It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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Art Honesty Kidding Part Truth
There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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Away Going Houston Kids
I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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People Retirement Retiring
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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Country Frozen Halloween Listened World
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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Definitely Fighter Lovers
You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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Beats Hate Only
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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Causes Home Love True
You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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Money Overtime Pay Uncles Work
Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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Art Honey Media Money
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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Goodbye Life Series
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
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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Memories Regular Shuffles Son Sweet
Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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Giving Heart Work
There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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Kindness People Reality
You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Beer Relationship Yoga
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 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
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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Causes Giving Musician
every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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Life Relationship Rose

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