Only the good die young.
BILLY JOELIt took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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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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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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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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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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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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