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Billy Joel

I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
BILLY JOEL

Education Fire Long
You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
BILLY JOEL

Hard Old Rock Roll
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.
BILLY JOEL

Dream Imagination Mind
We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
BILLY JOEL

Alcohol Drug Soul
No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
BILLY JOEL

Healing Matter Music
They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
BILLY JOEL

Drink Expression Loneliness
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
Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
BILLY JOEL

Music Player Thinking
I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
BILLY JOEL

Mother Piano Years
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.
BILLY JOEL

Hard Mistakes Reputation Times
Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
BILLY JOEL

Dirty Found Quality You
There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
BILLY JOEL

Alcohol Drug Men
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
BILLY JOEL

Autograph Daughter Missions
Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
BILLY JOEL

Beethoven Guys Phenomenal Productivity Some
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
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOEL

Family Like Musician Tied
What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
BILLY JOEL

Smart Unanswered Questions
Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
BILLY JOEL

Drinking Loneliness
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
Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
BILLY JOEL

Men Piano Song Tonight
Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
BILLY JOEL

Giving Heart Work
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
BILLY JOEL

Giving Hate People
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
BILLY JOEL

Kids Pianist Song Songwriter Writing
Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
BILLY JOEL

Color Philosophy Rainbow
I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
BILLY JOEL

Boredom Children Reality
I’m in a New York state of mind
BILLY JOEL

Country Mind States
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
BILLY JOEL

Blac Color Philosophy White

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