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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

Billy Joel

There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
BILLY JOEL

Couple Hard Times Years
She’s got a smile that heals me.
BILLY JOEL

Compliment Heal Smile
She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
BILLY JOEL

Cutting Evil Laughing
I’ve crashed my car three times.
BILLY JOEL

Believe Times Car Three
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems
BILLY JOEL

Goodbye Inspirational Tomorrow
When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
BILLY JOEL

Fortunately Jobs Missing Mistake
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
BILLY JOEL

Definitely Fighter Lovers
Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
BILLY JOEL

Everybody Loneliness Love Somehow
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.
BILLY JOEL

About Affecting Going Remember Song Valley
I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
BILLY JOEL

Education Graduate School Self Teacher
Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
BILLY JOEL

Results Style Success Weakness
Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
BILLY JOEL

Competition Crazy Poor School Teacher
I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
BILLY JOEL

Mother Piano Years
When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
BILLY JOEL

Club Jobs Musician
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.
BILLY JOEL

Musician Safety Wire
There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
BILLY JOEL

Life Other Stories Story

Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

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