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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.

Billy Joel

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
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.
BILLY JOEL

Inspirational Motivational Music
She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
BILLY JOEL

Cutting Evil Laughing
You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
BILLY JOEL

Money Overtime Pay Uncles Work
I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
BILLY JOEL

Country Mass Problems Thinking
every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
BILLY JOEL

Life Relationship Rose
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’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
BILLY JOEL

Country Political Soldiers Trying
You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
BILLY JOEL

Beer Relationship Yoga
There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
BILLY JOEL

Conversation Paranoia Someone Talk Way
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOEL

Family Like Musician Tied
We’re on the verge of all things new.
BILLY JOEL

All Cerge Country New Things
I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
BILLY JOEL

Booze Couple Hard Nothing Times
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
BILLY JOEL

Memories Regular Shuffles Son Sweet
I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
BILLY JOEL

Mother Piano Years
My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
BILLY JOEL

Being Crazy Sane

I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.

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