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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.

Billy Joel

Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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Allowed Mistakes Sometimes Takes
Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Celebrity Disneyland Peter
Only the good die young.
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Dense Iron Maiden Young
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Distance Much Resistance Too
I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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People Retirement Retiring
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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Demand Music Successful
I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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Active Issues Mind Writing
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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Beautiful Down Gotta Life Years
You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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Beats Hate Only
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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Cold Junk Punk Rocks Roll
We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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Dream Ocean Rivers
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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Memories Regular Shuffles Son Sweet
It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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Acceptance Love Loving Yourself
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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Causes Giving Musician
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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Crazy Mind People
In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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Birthday Business Jobs Crazy Song

Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.

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