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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

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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Musician Position Thinking Unlikely
You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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Hard Mistakes Reputation Times
She’s got a smile that heals me.
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Compliment Heal Smile
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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Life Love Motivational
I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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Consistency Craftmanship Long Piano
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 enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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Enrich Expressions Kids Songs
We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Humans Making Mistakes Suppose
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
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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Autograph Daughter Missions
Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Celebrity Disneyland Peter
Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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Baby Country Goodbye Hollywood
She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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Cutting Evil Laughing
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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Men Rejection Thinking
Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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Love Wasted Time
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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Art Literature Music
You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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Money Overtime Pay Uncles Work
This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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Moments Past Relentless
Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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Easy Harmonizing Needs Stage
And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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Old Share Told Truth
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
I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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Classical People Rolling Stones Use
I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Bring Care Fool Lesser
I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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Age Entertainer Idols Magazines Money
Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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Giving Heart Work
Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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Giving Mind Waiting
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

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