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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.

Billy Joel

Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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Competition Crazy Poor School Teacher
I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
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Matter Right Views Wrong
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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Clever Love Want
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Believe Meditation Religious
I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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Parent Piano Play Years
Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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Knows Right Wrong
They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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Drink Expression Loneliness
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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Listen Rocks Roll Vitality
It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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Relationship Sorry Strong
Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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Distance Long Night Stimulations
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
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Heart Loud Musician Voices
I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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Insanity Talking Winos
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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Musician Position Thinking Unlikely
I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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Mother Piano Years

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