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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.

Billy Joel

Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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Competition Crazy Poor School Teacher
I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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Education Fire Long
Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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Changing Friendship Please Song
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’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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Fun Laughing Song
You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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Enrich Expressions Kids Songs
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
In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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Birthday Business Jobs Crazy Song
You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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May Philosophy Right
There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Conversation Paranoia Someone Talk Way
People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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Feel Good Night People
What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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Smart Unanswered Questions
Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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Back Becomes Coming Seemed
I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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Age Birthday Insecurity
Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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Back Music Romance Together
I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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Mets Thinking Type

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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