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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.

Billy Joel

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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Criticism Honor Praise Received Sometimes
I’ve crashed my car three times.
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Believe Times Car Three
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
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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Causes Home Love True
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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Food Junk People Sold
You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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Cake Loneliness Love Mistakes Smile
Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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Advice Answers Waiting
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
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
The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Country Education Helped People Wall
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
We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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Alcohol Drug Soul
Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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Dirty Found Quality You
There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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Life Other Stories Story
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
Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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Color Philosophy Rainbow

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