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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.

Billy Joel

We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Humans Making Mistakes Suppose
I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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Age Fighting Noble
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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Evil May Understanding
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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Causes Home Love True
So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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Drink Night Relationship
I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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Inspirational Motivational Music
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.
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Artist Perception Sea
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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Art Created Looks Portraits
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.
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Boys Drinking Inspirational
We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Hurt Laughing might
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.
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Alchemist Fun Wizards
If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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Kids Kids Want Something Tell
Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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Drinking Loneliness
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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Active Issues Mind Writing
I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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Not Philosophy Righteous Sure
I watched the mighty skyline fall
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Fall Mighty Skylines Watched
Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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Inspiration Tangible Unseen
Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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Madness Philosophy Reality Sadness
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 Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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Change Good Times Hair Love Trying
I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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Away From Crush Friendship Girl
Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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Art Rock Roll War
Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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Advice Cheap Take
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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Musician Position Thinking Unlikely
I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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Consistency Craftmanship Long Piano
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.
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Empathy People Thinking
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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Cold Junk Punk Rocks Roll
Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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Creative Outlets Records

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