Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
BILLY JOEL
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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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.
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