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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Billy Joel

Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
BILLY JOEL

Easy Harmonizing Needs Stage
People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
BILLY JOEL

Believe Lying People
I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
BILLY JOEL

People Retirement Retiring
I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
BILLY JOEL

Clever Love Want
Only the good die young.
BILLY JOEL

Dense Iron Maiden Young
People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
BILLY JOEL

Feel Good Night People
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
BILLY JOEL

Heart Loud Musician Voices
When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
BILLY JOEL

Club Jobs Musician
Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
BILLY JOEL

Advice Cheap Take
They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
BILLY JOEL

Known Life Only Time
I’m in a New York state of mind
BILLY JOEL

Country Mind States
I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
BILLY JOEL

Insanity Talking Winos
And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
BILLY JOEL

Old Share Told Truth
Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
BILLY JOEL

Distance Long Night Stimulations
If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
BILLY JOEL

Kids Kids Want Something Tell
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
BILLY JOEL

Memories Regular Shuffles Son Sweet

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

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