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 JOELSlow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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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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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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.
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