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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.

Billy Joel

In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
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Heart Past Sanctuary Strong
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.
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Help Point Promised Something Try
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
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Heart Loud Musician Voices
We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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Dream Ocean Rivers
Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Celebrity Disneyland Peter
Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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Back Becomes Coming Seemed
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
Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Moment Now South Trying
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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Arabia Country Lawrence Place
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
I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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Country Musical Tragedy
You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Beer Relationship Yoga
There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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Alcohol Drug Men
…And you’re the only one who knows.
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Good Inspirational Love Morning
Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Law Night Order
There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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Butter Peanut Sex Witty
I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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Girl Kind Rock Roll
And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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Old Share Told Truth
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.
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Clever Love Want
They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Believe Eye Sadness
Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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Dirty Found Quality You
People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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Believe Lying People
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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Musician Safety Wire
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Believe Meditation Religious
It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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Relationship Sorry Strong
I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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Life Looking Philosophy

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