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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.

Billy Joel

There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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Butter Peanut Sex Witty
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
I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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Age Fighting Noble
I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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Classical People Rolling Stones Use
What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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Believe Friendship Way
Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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Giving Heart Work
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
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
Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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Anyway One Songs
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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Art Literature Music
You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Beer Relationship Yoga
Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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Goes Gone Someday
I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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Education Fire Long
Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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Giving Mind Waiting
I’m single but interviewing.
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Interviewing Person Single

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