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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.

Billy Joel

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
Only the good die young.
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Dense Iron Maiden Young
I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times, I’ll take you just the way you are.
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Good Times Trouble Way
I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Boredom Children Reality
you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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Crazy May might
I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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History Loved Music Musicologist Something
You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
BILLY JOEL

Given Needs Relationship
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
Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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Competition Crazy Poor School Teacher
You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Mind Song Speak Time
I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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Education Graduate School Self Teacher
My songs are like my kids.
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Kids Like Song
Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Celebrity Disneyland Peter
You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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Made Mistake Reality
We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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Change Good Times Hair Love Trying
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

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