We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
BILLY JOELVideos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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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.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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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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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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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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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.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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Only the good die young.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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