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.
BILLY JOELWhen 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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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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Only the good die young.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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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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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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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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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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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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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.
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. 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.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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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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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Slow 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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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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