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BILLY JOELThere’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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Only the good die young.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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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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