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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Billy Joel

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
BILLY JOEL

Consistency Craftmanship Long Piano
Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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Call Fool Moments
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
Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Law Night Order
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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Autograph Daughter Missions
What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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Smart Unanswered Questions
I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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Life Looking Philosophy
Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Celebrity Disneyland Peter
You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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Home Phones Waiting
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
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
I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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House Jerry Sold
If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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Kids Kids Want Something Tell
I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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Country Musical Tragedy
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
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
There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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Away Going Houston Kids
Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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Goes Gone Someday
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.
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Country Political Soldiers Trying
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Heart Loud Musician Voices
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
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
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
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
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
Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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Discounts Giving Reality
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

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