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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.

Billy Joel

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.
BILLY JOEL

History Loved Music Musicologist Something
They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
BILLY JOEL

Drink Expression Loneliness
Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
BILLY JOEL

Graduation Help Real Teacher Wall
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

Distance Long Night Stimulations
Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
BILLY JOEL

Artist Perception Sea
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOEL

Family Like Musician Tied
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
BILLY JOEL

Cold Junk Punk Rocks Roll
Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
BILLY JOEL

Easy Harmonizing Needs Stage
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
BILLY JOEL

Alchemist Fun Wizards
You can speak your mind But not on my time.
BILLY JOEL

Mind Song Speak Time
I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
BILLY JOEL

Age Fighting Noble
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
BILLY JOEL

Blood Hot Writing
Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
BILLY JOEL

Music Player Thinking
You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
BILLY JOEL

Cake Loneliness Love Mistakes Smile
I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
BILLY JOEL

House Jerry Sold
Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
BILLY JOEL

Empathy People Thinking

She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.

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