Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
BILLY JOELNobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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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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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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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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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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