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You can linger too long in your dreams.

Billy Joel

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
I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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Age Entertainer Idols Magazines Money
I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Bring Care Fool Lesser
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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Criticism Honor Praise Received Sometimes
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.
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Evil Home Open Phones Window
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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Life Love Motivational
They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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Evil Heaven Waiting
You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Mind Song Speak Time
Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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Call Fool Moments
I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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Country Political Soldiers Trying
Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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Advice Answers Waiting
I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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Faces Names Rock Roll
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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Musician Position Thinking Unlikely
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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Autograph Daughter Missions
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 think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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Inspirational Motivational Music
I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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Civil Dominate Politics Servant
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
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
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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Definitely Fighter Lovers
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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Arabia Country Lawrence Place
We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Hurt Laughing might
Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Celebrity Disneyland Peter
I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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Reading Song Writing
People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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Believe Lying People
I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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Family Men Mint
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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Demand Music Successful

You can linger too long in your dreams.

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