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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.

Billy Joel

I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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About Affecting Going Remember Song Valley
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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Mean Opinion Singers
Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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Drinking Loneliness
Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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Although Needs Romantic Tonight Want
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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Courage Fighting Title
Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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Art Rock Roll War
I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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Girl Kind Rock Roll
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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Empathy People Thinking
I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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Music Probably Reason Started Writing
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
There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Conversation Paranoia Someone Talk Way
There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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Life Other Stories Story
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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Definitely Fighter Lovers
You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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Girl Shame Walk
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
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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Art Created Looks Portraits

Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.

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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.

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