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Billy Joel

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
BILLY JOEL

Family Men Mint
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 don’t know why I go to extremes.
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Extremes Insanity Knows
We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Humans Making Mistakes Suppose
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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Arabia Country Lawrence Place
Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
BILLY JOEL

Results Style Success Weakness
I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
BILLY JOEL

History Loved Music Musicologist Something
We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
BILLY JOEL

Dream Ocean Rivers
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
BILLY JOEL

Definitely Fighter Lovers
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
When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
BILLY JOEL

Fortunately Jobs Missing Mistake
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
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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Community People Writing
So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
BILLY JOEL

Break Decision Make One Only
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.
BILLY JOEL

Active Issues Mind Writing
The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Country Education Helped People Wall

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