I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
BILLY JOELWhy do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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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.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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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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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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