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Billy Joel

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.
BILLY JOEL

Believe Eye Sadness
There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Conversation Paranoia Someone Talk Way
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 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’m in a New York state of mind
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Country Mind States
Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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Fine Slow Down Want
I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Bring Care Fool Lesser
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
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Heart Loud Musician Voices
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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Mistakes Originals Theory
What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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Smart Unanswered Questions
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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Careers Materials Together
I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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Believe Clouds Important
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
There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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Life Other Stories Story
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.
BILLY JOEL

Musician Safety Wire

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