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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.

Billy Joel

We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Hurt Laughing might
Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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Artist Perception Sea
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
Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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Dream Vienna Waiting
This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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Moments Past Relentless
You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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Enrich Expressions Kids Songs
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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Courage Fighting Title
Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Celebrity Disneyland Peter
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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Human Music Need Same Things
Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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Around Long Sit Song Writing
I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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Believe Clouds Important
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
You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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Beats Hate Only
She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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Cutting Evil Laughing
Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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Doors Opening People
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

I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.

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