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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.

Billy Joel

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
When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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Community People Writing
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Distance Much Resistance Too
Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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Discounts Giving Reality
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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Art Literature Music
Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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Around Long Sit Song Writing
I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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Country Mass Problems Thinking
Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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Advice Cheap Take
I’ve crashed my car three times.
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Believe Times Car Three
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
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’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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Girl Kind Rock Roll
I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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Active Issues Mind Writing
We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Hurt Laughing might
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
I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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Education Fire Long
Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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Art Rock Roll War
Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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Anyway One Songs
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 am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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Beautiful Heard Record Song Writing
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Heart Loud Musician Voices
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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Evil May Understanding
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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Honesty Insanity Lonely
I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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Country Political Soldiers Trying
Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Moment Now South Trying
My songs are like my kids.
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Kids Like Song
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

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