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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.

Billy Joel

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
I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
BILLY JOEL

Age Birthday Insecurity
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
BILLY JOEL

Honesty Insanity Lonely
You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
BILLY JOEL

Money Overtime Pay Uncles Work
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
BILLY JOEL

Heart Loud Musician Voices
The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
BILLY JOEL

Country Education Helped People Wall
In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
BILLY JOEL

Evil Home Open Phones Window
Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
BILLY JOEL

Men Piano Song Tonight
You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
BILLY JOEL

Hard Mistakes Reputation Times
In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
BILLY JOEL

Heart Past Sanctuary Strong
As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
BILLY JOEL

Atheists Evil Fear Problem Realize
Only the good die young.
BILLY JOEL

Dense Iron Maiden Young
I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
BILLY JOEL

Education Fire Long
Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
BILLY JOEL

Results Style Success Weakness
I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
BILLY JOEL

Family Men Mint
Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
BILLY JOEL

Discounts Giving Reality

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 – 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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