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Billy Joel

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
Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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Baby Country Goodbye Hollywood
They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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Evil Heaven Waiting
We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Hurt Laughing might
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.
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Beautiful Down Gotta Life Years
I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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Education Graduate School Self Teacher
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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Good Times Trouble Way
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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Causes Giving Musician
There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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Butter Peanut Sex Witty
Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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Heart Love Lying
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’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
I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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House Jerry Sold
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
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.
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Country Mass Problems Thinking
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
Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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Easy Harmonizing Needs Stage
So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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Baby Faces Goodbye Hollywood Life Many Series
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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Demand Music Successful
Only the good die young.
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Dense Iron Maiden Young
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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Mistakes Originals Theory
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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Made Mistake Reality
You can linger too long in your dreams.
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Dream Linger Long
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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Food Junk People Sold
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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Blood Hot Writing
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
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Distance Much Resistance Too

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