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

Billy Joel

If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
BILLY JOEL

Causes Past Way
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
Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
BILLY JOEL

Law Night Order
I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
BILLY JOEL

Cheer Limos People
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOEL

Family Like Musician Tied
There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
BILLY JOEL

Couple Hard Times Years
I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
BILLY JOEL

Education Fire Long
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
BILLY JOEL

Art Literature Music
I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
BILLY JOEL

Reading Song Writing
You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
BILLY JOEL

Home Phones Waiting
Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
BILLY JOEL

Artist Perception Sea
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
BILLY JOEL

Definitely Fighter Lovers
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
BILLY JOEL

Kids Pianist Song Songwriter Writing
Only the good die young.
BILLY JOEL

Dense Iron Maiden Young
I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
BILLY JOEL

Anniversary Friendship Love
You only beat me if you get me to hate.
BILLY JOEL

Beats Hate Only

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