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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.

Billy Joel

So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
BILLY JOEL

Baby Faces Goodbye Hollywood Life Many Series
When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
BILLY JOEL

Community People Writing
If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
BILLY JOEL

Kids Kids Want Something Tell
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.
BILLY JOEL

Active Issues Mind Writing
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.
BILLY JOEL

Angry Discontented Regret Relationship
Nobody’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.”
BILLY JOEL

Everybody Famous Really Town
Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
BILLY JOEL

Back Music Romance Together
My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
BILLY JOEL

Being Crazy Sane
There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
BILLY JOEL

Angel Come Future Miracle War World
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.
BILLY JOEL

Mean Opinion Singers
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.
BILLY JOEL

Art Created Looks Portraits
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

Empathy People Thinking
Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
BILLY JOEL

Anyway One Songs
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
BILLY JOEL

Human Music Need Same Things
Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
BILLY JOEL

Inspiration Tangible Unseen
Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
BILLY JOEL

Allowed Mistakes Sometimes Takes

You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.

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