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Billy Joel

I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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Music Probably Reason Started Writing
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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Art Honesty Kidding Part Truth
Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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Anybody Country Good Life
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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Courage Fighting Title
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 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.
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Clever Love Want
No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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Healing Matter Music
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
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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Causes Home Love True
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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Crazy Mind People
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.
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Men Piano Song Tonight
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.
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Empathy People Thinking
It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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Beautiful Down Gotta Life Years
Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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Heart Love Lying
I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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Not Philosophy Righteous Sure
I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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Civil Dominate Politics Servant
We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Humans Making Mistakes Suppose
Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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Beethoven Guys Phenomenal Productivity Some
If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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Kids Kids Want Something Tell
I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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Boys Drinking Inspirational
She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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Cutting Evil Laughing
I’m single but interviewing.
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Interviewing Person Single
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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Blue Commercial Country Rocks
You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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Home Phones Waiting
I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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Girl Kind Rock Roll
It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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Relationship Sorry Strong
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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Careers Materials Together

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