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Billy Joel

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
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
Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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Changing Friendship Please Song
Only the good die young.
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Dense Iron Maiden Young
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
I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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Not Philosophy Righteous Sure
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
I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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Faces Names Rock Roll
I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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Age Fighting Noble
The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Country Education Helped People Wall
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Distance Much Resistance Too
I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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Education Graduate School Self Teacher
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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Blue Commercial Country Rocks
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
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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Crazy Mind People
I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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House Jerry Sold

We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.

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