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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.

Billy Joel

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.
BILLY JOEL

Country Political Soldiers Trying
People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
BILLY JOEL

Believe Lying People
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.
BILLY JOEL

Book Country Kids
You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
BILLY JOEL

Cake Loneliness Love Mistakes Smile
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
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
BILLY JOEL

Life Love Motivational
If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
BILLY JOEL

Kids Kids Want Something Tell
There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
BILLY JOEL

Life Other Stories Story
We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Humans Making Mistakes Suppose
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.
BILLY JOEL

Clever Love Want
It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
BILLY JOEL

Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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Family Like Musician Tied
You only beat me if you get me to hate.
BILLY JOEL

Beats Hate Only
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
BILLY JOEL

Musician Pursue Young
If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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Dream Imagination Mind
This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
BILLY JOEL

Forever Remember Sadness Want

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