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When I First Started I Didn't Know A Lot About The Job, So I Kinda Had To Figure It Out By Wire, Ya Know? It Was Hit And Miss, I Made Mistakes, And Fortunately I Was Able To Recover From Most Of 'em. But I Promised Myself If I Ever Get To A Point Where I Can Help Somebody That's Trying To Learn How To Do This, That I Would Try To Do That.

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When I First Started

Billy Joel

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When I First Started I Didn't Know A Lot About The Job, So I Kinda Had To Figure It Out By Wire, Ya Know? It Was Hit And Miss, I Made Mistakes, And Fortunately I Was Able To Recover From Most Of 'em. But I Promised Myself If I Ever Get To A Point Where I Can Help Somebody That's Trying To Learn How To Do This, That I Would Try To Do That.

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If You Search For Truthfulness, You Might As Well Be Blind.

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.

There's A Deep-seated Paranoia That Americans Have About Not Being Americans Or Something.

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.

I Have A Theory That The Only Original Things We Ever Do Are Mistakes.

'our Parents' Generation Had It A Lot Tougher Than We Did. They Had To Live Through The Depression, World War Ii, And Then They Had To, You Know, Try To Pick Up The Pieces Of Their Lives And Bring Up Their Children. And, It Was A Great Example For Us. I Guess We Grew Up With A Certain Amount Of The Ethics Our Parents Had, Which Is, You Know: Work Hard, Make Your Own Way, Be Independent.

You've Got Yoga, I've Got Beer. You Got Overpriced, I Got Weird.

Advice Is Cheap; You Can Take It From Me.

I'm Probably Writing Music Now For The Same Reason As I Started Writing Songs When I Was 14 - To Meet Women.

I Run Into People From The Lehigh Valley And Allentown All Over The World, And They're Obviously Doing Pretty Well. They Say, "oh, It's Pretty Nice There Now And There's A Lot Of New Businesses That Have Come Into The Area." Nobody's Telling Me, "yeah, I Left." Everybody Says, "you Know, I'm There. It's Great. It's Really Nice There, And You Made Our Town Famous."

There Was Only Really One Accident That Was Kinda Bad But It Was Nothing To Do With Booze, Just Bad Luck... I Was Having A Hard Time A Couple Of Years Ago... I'm A Good Driver, I Just Had Bad Luck.

So Before We End And Then Begin We'll Drink A Toast To How It's Been A Few More Hours To Be Complete A Few More Nights On Satin Sheets A Few More Times That I Can Say, I've Loved These Days.

It's A Little Intimidating To Walk Into A Studio And Know That You're Going To Sing A Duet With Barbra Streisand.

As Long As There Are Memories, Yesterday Remains. As Long As There Is Hope, Tomorrow Awaits. As Long As There Is Friendship, Today Is Beautiful.

There Will Be Other Words Some Other Day; That Is The Story Of My Life.

Story Of My Life

In A Way, We Are Magicians. We Are Alchemists, Sorcerers And Wizards. We Are A Very Strange Bunch. But There Is Great Fun In Being A Wizard.

Some Of The Stuff I'm Writing Is Almost Like Hymns, Some Of My First Singing And Choral Experiences Were In Church, The Church Of Christ In Hicksville.

I Am No Longer Afraid Of Becoming Lost, Because The Journey Back Always Reveals Something New, And That Is Ultimately Good For The Artist.

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?

Every Time I've Held A Rose, It Seems I Only Felt The Thorns

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.

I Did Write A Letter To The Archdiocese Who'd Banned The Song, Only The Good Die Young, Asking Them To Ban My Next Record.

The Graduations Hang On The Wall, But They Never Really Helped Us At All.

Why Should I Worry, Why Should I Care? And Even When I Cross That Line, I Got Street Savoire Faire.

Have You Listened To The Radio Lately? Have You Heard The Canned, Frozen And Processed Product Being Dished Up To The World As American Popular Music Today?

You Get Paid Like A Really Good Call Girl. Walking Offstage Is Like The Walk Of Shame.

She's The Quiet Type Who's Into Heavy Metal.

And So My Child And I Came To This Place To Meet Him Eye To Eye And Face To Face. He Made My Daughter Laugh, Then We Embraced. We Never Knew What Friends We Had, Until We Came To Leningrad.

From A Town Known As Wheeling, West Virginia Rode A Boy With A Six-gun In His Hand And His Daring Life Of Crime Made Him A Legend In His Time East And West Of The Rio Grande. Well, He Started With A Bank In Colorado In The Pocket Of His Vest A Colt He Hid. And His Age And His Size Took The Teller By Surprise, And The Word Spread Of Billy The Kid.

And The Only People I Fear Are Those Who Never Have Doubts... Save Us All From Arrogant Men, And All The Causes They're For.

I'm Not Sure About Life After This; God Knows I'm Not A Spiritual Man.

I Took A Fresh Pack Of Luckies, A Mint Called Sen-sen, My Old Man's Trojans.

I Always Thought Of Myself As The Piano Player In The Band. That, I Suppose, I'm Confident About, And I Guess My Songwriting Developed As I Went Along And I Got A Certain Amount Of Confidence In That. The Songs Are Like My Kids, I'm Proud Of All Of Them For One Reason Or Another.

It's Really Hard To Make A Living As A Musician. It's Almost Impossible.

Some Folks Like To Get Away Take A Holiday From The Neighborhood. Hop A Flight To Miami Beach Or To Hollywood But I'm Talking A Greyhound On The Hudson River Line. I'm In A New York State Of Mind.

Black And White Is How It Should Be, But Shades Of Grey Are The Colors I See.

Black And White

Out Of Respect For The Things That I Was Never Destined To Do, I Have Learned That My Strengths Are A Result Of My Weaknesses, My Success Is Due To My Failures, And My Style Is Directly Related To My Limitations.

She's Got A Smile That Heals Me.

I Won't Be Righteous Again. I'm Not Sure Anymore.

Slow Down You're Doing Fine You Can't Be Everything You Want To Be Before Your Time.

The Biggest Regret? This May Be One Of Those Years I Have No Regrets.

My Songs Are Like My Kids.

So You Play Your Albums And You Smoke Your Pot And You Meet Your Girlfriend In The Parking Lot Oh, But Still You're Aching For The Things You Haven't Got, What Went Wrong? And If You Can't Understand Why Your World Is So Dead And Why You've Got To Keep In Style And Feed Your Head Well, You're Twenty One And Still You Mother Makes Your Bed And That's Too Long.

Even Though I'm In Love, Sometimes I Get So Afraid.

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.

Ain't No Rainbows Shining On Me, Shades Of Gray Are The Colors I See.

I Didn't Graduate High School, So I Never Got A Teacher's Education, I'm Mostly Self-read, Self-taught. 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.

You May Be Wrong, But You May Be Right.

It's Alright, You Can Afford To Lose A Day Or Two

I Am The Entertainer And I Know Just Where I Stand Another Serenader And Another Long Haired Band Today I Am Your Champion, I May Have Won Your Hearts, But I Know The Game, You'll Forget My Name, And I Won't Be Here In Another Year If I Don't Stay On The Charts.

Streetlife Serenaders Have No Obligations Hold No Grand Illusions Need No Stimulation.

I've Reached The Age Where Competence Is A Turn-on.

Don't Make Music For Some Vast, Unseen Audience Or Market Or Ratings Share Or Even For Something As Tangible As Money. Though It's Crucial To Make A Living, That Shouldn't Be Your Inspiration. Do It For Yourself.

You've Got To Be Hard, Like The Rock In That Old Rock & Roll.

When I Was A Young Musician, The Only Option Available To Pursue Secondary Education In Music Was To Attend A Classical Conservatory.

If I Ever Reach Heaven I Expect To Find Three Wonders There: First, To Meet Some I Had Not Thought To See There; Second, To Miss Some I Had Expected To See There; And Third, The Greatest Wonder Of All, To Find Myself There.

Well I Never Had A Place That I Could Call My Very Own/that's All Right, My Love, 'cause You're My Home.

You Just Sit Home And Masturbate. The Phone Is Going To Ring Soon, But You Just Can't Wait.

Give A Moment Or Two To The Angry Young Man With His Foot In His Mouth And His Heart In His Hand.

And You Know That When The Truth Is Told That You Can Get What You Want Or You Can Just Get Old.

I Believe That All Important Matters Have To Be Settled Here, Not In The Clouds Somewhere After We Kick Off.

There's Nothing Better Than Good Sex. But Bad Sex? A Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwich Is Better Than Bad Sex.

All She Wanted Was Sax.

I'm Carrying The Weight Of All The Useless Junk And Modern Man Accumulates.

I Believe There Is A Time For Meditation In Cathedrals Of Our Own.

You Want To Give People A Reason To Hate My Guts More? I'm Making More Money.

My Friends And I Are Crazy. That's The Only Thing That Keeps Us Sane!

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Dream On, But Don't Imagine They'll All Come True. When Will You Realize... Vienna Waits For You.

I See The Children With Their Boredom And Their Vacant Stares.

I Could Walk Away From Anyone I Ever Knew, But I Can't Walk Away From You.

You Can Linger Too Long In Your Dreams.

Some People Stay Far Away From The Door If There's A Chance Of It Opening Up. They Hear A Voice In The Hall Outside And Hope That It Just Passes By.

Sweetness Flows From Your Appearance And Your Beauty Makes Me Fall More In Love With You. Anytime I Feel Low, I Think About The Good Times You Have Given Me And Everything Seems Good Again.

I Actually Wrote The Song First As "well, It's 9 O'clock On A Saturday." That Bit. Then I Said, You Know What? It Needs Some Kind Of An Introduction To Kind Of Set The Mood And Set The Flavor. So I Just Played This Kind Of Cocktail Lounge Thing, The Hustle And Bustle Of Waitresses Going By - That Kind Of Thing.

Hustle And Bustle

When I See An Entire Community Disenfranchised, It Disturbs Me. Not That I'm A Message Guy, Per Se. I Write About People. I Like To Write About Human Beings, Not Crap Political Rhetoric. 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.

We're Only Human, We're Supposed To Make Mistakes.

Making Mistakes

Don't Go Changing, To Try And Please Me You Never Let Me Down Before.

...and You're The Only One Who Knows.

Morning Inspirational

My Love For You

If You Said Good-bye To Me Tonight, There Would Still Be Music Left To Write.

There Ain't Much Future For A Man Who Works The Sea, There Ain't No Island Left For Islanders Like Me.

What If She Figures Out You're Not Very Smart?

Unanswered Questions

Sergeant O'leary Is Walking The Beat, At Night He Becomes A Bar Tender.

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.

Some People Stay Away From The Door For The Chance Of It Opening Up.

Let Me Go On Sleeping And I Will Lose Myself In Palaces Of Sand, And All The Fantasies That I've Been Keeping Will Make The Empty Hours Easier To Stand.

I Compare Songwriting To Childbirth. How Many Kids Can You Have Before Your Uterus Explodes?

In An Age Of Incompetence, I've Been Able To Last In This Crazy Business. I Actually Know How To Play My Ax And Write A Song. That's My Job.

I Sold My House To Jerry Seinfeld.

I Am, As I've Said, Merely Competent. But In An Age Of Incompetence, That Makes Me Extraordinary.

Take Risks. Take Chances. Don't Be Afraid. You Gotta Go Into Life Brave.

You Can Walk Away From Your Mistakes You Can Turn Your Back On What You Do Just A Little Smile Is All It Takes And You Can Have Your Cake And Eat It Too. Loneliness Will Get To You Somehow But Ev'rybody Loves You Now.

Someday We'll All Be Gone, But Lullabies Go On And On / They Never Die, That's How You And I Will Be

You're Having A Hard Time And Lately You Don't Feel So Good; You're Getting A Bad Reputation In Your Neighborhood. It's Alright, It's Alright; Sometimes That's What It Takes. You're Only Human, You're Allowed To Make Your Share Of Mistakes.

Historically, Musicians Know What It Is Like To Be Outside The Norm - Walking The High Wire Without A Safety Net. Our Experience Is Not So Different From Those Who March To The Beat Of Different Drummers.

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.

I Was Listening To Stuff And I Realized That I've Had A Lot Of Different Lives. You Know The Theory [that Says] Every Seven Years, You Have A Different Life? I Think That's True.

For Whatever Reason, Not All People Are Born With The Particular Gift Of Being Able To Express Ourselves Through Music. And, Believe Me, It Is A Gift.

I'm A Piano Player. I Never Thought Of Myself As A Singer, At All. I Was Always Trying To Sound Like Somebody Else. I Don't Like My Own Voice, I Like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I Like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, People That Have An Edge In Their Voice.

No Matter What Culture You're From, Everyone Loves Music.

I Don't Know Why I Go To Extremes.

A Typical Day In The Life Of A Heavy Metal Musician Consists Of A Round Of Golf And An Aa Meeting.

You've Given Me The Best Of You, But Now I Need The Rest Of You.

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.

In Every Heart There Is A Room, A Sanctuary Safe And Strong, To Heal The Wounds From Lovers Past, Until A New One Comes Along

They Say That No One's Gonna Play This On The Radio. They Said The Melancholy Blues Were Dead And Gone. But Only Songs Like These Played In Minor Keys, Keep Those Memories Holding On.

I Have To Thank My Mother For Paying For The Piano Lessons For All Those Years.

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.

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.

I'd Rather Laugh With The Sinners Than Cry With The Saints - The Sinners Are Much More Fun.

I Said I Love You And That's Forever And This I Promise From The Heart I Could Not Love You Any Better I Love You Just The Way You Are.

Everybody Is Different. Some Writers Can Write Reams Of Great Books And Then J. D. Salinger Wrote Just A Few. Beethoven Wrote Nine Symphonies. They Were All Phenomenal. 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.

She'll Carelessly Cut You And Laugh While You're Bleeding.

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

She Can Kill With Her Smile, She Can Wound With Her Eyes.

Hot Funk, Cold Punk, Even If It's Old Junk, It's Still Rock And Roll To Me.

Videos Destroyed The Vitality Of Rock And Roll. Before That, Music Said, "listen To Me." Now It Says, "look At Me."

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.

If I Need A Cause For Celebration, Or A Comfort I Can Use To Ease My Mind, I Rely On My Imagination, And I Dream Of An Imaginary Time.

Hope You Don't Think This Is Billy Joel Unplugged. I'm A Piano Player. I'm Already Unplugged.

I Was Thinking Of The Four Seasons, Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, And When I Was Thinking "uptown Girl!" I Was Trying To Sing Like Frankie Valli. They Had A Song Called "ragdoll," Which Was About A Poor Girl And A Rich Guy. So I Just Flipped It Around And Made It About A Rich Girl And A Poor Guy.

I Don't Care What Consequence It Brings, I Have Been A Fool For Lesser Things.

Well We're Waiting Here In Allentown For The Pennsylvania We Never Found For The Promises Our Teachers Gave If We Worked Hard If We Behaved So The Graduations Hang On The Wall But They Never Really Helped Us At All No They Never Taught Us What Was Real

I've Crashed My Car Three Times.

Rock And Roll Just Used To Be For Kicks, Now A Days It's Politics.

I've Played All Kinds Of Places, Laid All Kinds Of Girls.

More Than Art, More Than Literature, Music Is Universally Accessible.

I Started Just Concentrating On Songwriting When I Was Abut 20; I'd Been In Rock Bands Six Or Seven Years, Kinda Got That Out Of My System, I Said, "ok, You Ain't Gonna Be A Rock Star, You Don't Look Like A Rock Star, It Probably Ain't Gonna Happen. So What You Should Do Is Write Songs And Maybe Other People Will Do Your Songs."

I Look In The Mirror And Think, 'i Don't Look Like A Rock Star.' I Talked About This With Bono And We Looked At Each Other And Decided We Look Like A Pair Of Bricklayers.

I Work With Musicians Whose Opinions I Respect And If They Don't Like Something They Don't Hold Back. They'll Say, 'that Really Sucks' And 'you've Lost It' And 'you're No Good Anymore.' And I Crawl Away With My Tail Between My Legs And I Fear That Kind Of Ridicule, But I Want Them To Like The Music I'm Bringing To Them.

We All End In The Ocean. We All Start In The Streams. We're All Carried Along, By The River Of Dreams.

I've Written A Bunch Of Stuff That No One's Ever Heard, And I Don't Know If They Ever Will. I'm Just Doing It For My Own Edification.

I Always Wrote The Music First, And The Music Gave Me The Mood And The Lyrics Were Pretty Much Put In To Give You A Map, Where That Mood Came From And Where It's Going. But My First Love Was Really The Music Itself, And I Guess I've Gone Back To That.

I'm Not The Kind Of Guy Who Wants To Be On A Pedestal.

Where Have You Been Hanging Out Lately Honey? You Can't Dress Trashy 'til You Spend A Lot Of Money.

Slow Down You're Doing Fine You Can't Be Everything You Want To Be Before Your Time Although It's So Romantic On The Borderline Tonight Too Bad But It's The Life You Lead You're So Ahead Of Yourself That You Forfeit What You Need Though You Can See When You're Wrong

Some Love Is Just A Lie Of The Heart, The Cold Remains Of What Began With A Passionate Heart.

I'm A Statistic In A System That A Civil Servant Dominates.

Hey Lord, Would Ya Look Out For Her Tonight, And Make Sure That All Her Dreams Are Sweet? Said Now, Would Ya Guide Her On The Roads, And Make Them Softer For Her Feet? Hey Lord, Would Ya Look Out For Her Tonight, And Make Sure That She's Gonna Be Alright, Until She's Home And Here With Me.

Your Mother Told You All That I Could Give You Was A Reputation.

You Only Beat Me If You Get Me To Hate.

You May Never Understand How The Stranger Is Inspired For He Is Not Always Evil, And He Is Not Always Wrong.

There's Always A Place For The Angry Young Man With His Fist In The Air And His Head In The Sand. He's Never Been Able To Learn From Mistakes, He Can't Understand Why His Heart Always Breaks.

We Didn't Start The Fire It Was Always Burning Since The World's Been Turning We Didn't Start The Fire No We Didn't Light It But We Tried To Fight It

We Passed The Hash Pipe And Played Our Doors Tapes.

Only The Good Die Young.

Following A Code Of Silence, You're Never Gonna Lose The Anger.

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.

Say Goodbye To The Oldies, But Goodies, Because The Good Old Days Weren't Always Good And Tomorrow Ain't As Bad As It Seems

I'm Sure You Have Some Cosmic Rationale, But Here You Are With Your Faith And Your Peter Pan Advice.

If I Traveled All My Life And I Never Get To Stop And Settle Down Long As I Have You By My Side There's A Roof Above And Good Walls All Around You're My Castle, You're My Cabin And My Instant Pleasure Dome I Need You In My House 'cause You're My Home.

I Really Wish I Was Less Of A Thinking Man And More Of A Fool Not Afraid Of Rejection.

There's A Place In The World For The Angry Young Man With His Working Class Ties And His Radical Plans He Refuses To Bend, He Refuses To Crawl He's Always At Home With His Back To The Wall And He's Proud Of His Scars And The Battles He's Lost And He Struggles And Bleeds As He Hangs On The Cross And He Likes To Be Known As The Angry Young Man.

I'm Kind Of Putting My Toe Back In The Water And Seeing How It Feels. We're Going To Be Doing Stuff We Haven't Done For Years And Years And Years. So I'm Looking Forward To Seeing How This Stuff Flies.

The Happiest Times In My Life Were When My Relationships Were Going Well - When I Was In Love With Someone, And Someone Was Loving Me. But In My Whole Life, I Haven't Met The Person I Can Sustain A Relationship With Yet. So I'm Discontented About That. I'm Angry With Myself. I Have Regrets.

I Believe I've Passed The Age Of Consciousness And Righteous Rage. I've Found That Just Surviving Is A Noble Fight. I Once Believed In Causes Too; I Had My Pointless Points Of View. And Life Went On No Matter Who As Wrong Or Right.

The Joy Of Life Is Made Up Of Obscure And Seemingly Mundane Victories That Give Us Our Own Small Satisfactions.

I Think Historically America Has Been Pretty Tolerant. It Seems When There's A Mass Influx From One Place, That's When It Becomes Problematic For Americans.

You Should Never Argue With A Crazy Mind, You Ought To Know My Now.

Even When I Stop Performing Or Stop Making Records I Won't Stop Being Creative. Songwriting Is A Good Outlet.

My Daughter Sent Me On A Mission To Get As Many Autographs As Possible.

I've Come To Realize That Life Is Not A Musical Comedy, It's A Greek Tragedy.

I Tell The Audience Every Night, "i Hope You Didn't Pay More Than Face Value On That Ticket, Because We Ain't Worth More Than That, And You Ain't Gonna Get Any More Than That."

I Am The Entertainer, I've Come To Do My Show You've Heard My Latest Record, It's Been On The Radio 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.

You Can’t Go The Distance With Too Much Resistance

I Don't Belong In Limos Or Private Jets Or On Stage With People Cheering Me But That's What's Kept Me Grounded Because I Know It's Not Right.

If You Tell Kids They Can't Have Something, That's What They Want.

I Always Hated My Hair, So Now It's Going Away.

You've Got Your Passion. You've Got Your Pride. But Don't You Know That Only Fools Are Satisfied? Dream On, But Don't Imagine They'll All Come True.

So I Would Choose To Be With You, That's If The Choice Were Mine To Make, But You Can Make Decisions Too, And You Can Have This Heart To Break

We Might Be Laughing A Bit Too Loud, But That Never Hurt No One

They Say There's A Heaven For Those Who Wait, Some Say It's Better I Say It Ain't.

Don't Be Afraid To Try Again Everyone Goes South Every Now And Then.

I Can't Remember Faces, Don't Remember Names, But After Awhile And A Thousand Miles It All Becomes The Same.

Honesty Is Such A Lonely Word. Everyone Is So Untrue.

If You Are Not Doing What You Love, You Are Wasting Your Time.

You're Not The Only One Who's Made Mistakes, But They're The Only Things That You Can Truly Call Your Own.

No End To Sorrow, Caused By The Same Endless Fears. Why Can't We Learn From All We've Been Through After Two Thousand Years?

She Can Kill With A Smile. She Can Wound With Her Eyes. She Can Ruin Your Faith With Her Casual Lies. And She Only Reveals What She Wants You To See. She Hides Like A Child, But She's Always A Woman To Me.

Honesty Is The Best Part Of Any Art Form. If You Don't Have That, You're Kidding Yourself And Your Listener.

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.

Here I Am Starting A Franchise And I'm Gonna Be 65 Years Old. I Should've Started This In 1978... I Wrote Like 300 Songs And I'm Gonna Have To Re-learn Some Of Them!

Maybe This Won't Last Very Long But You Feel So Right And I Could Be Wrong. Maybe I've Been Hoping Too Hard. I've Gone This Far And It's More Than I Hope For.

Lawrence Of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

Lawrence Of Arabia

I Look At Some Of The Songs I Wrote Years Ago And I Can't Believe I Wrote Such Crap.

What Will It Take For You To Believe In Me, The Way That I Believe In You?

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.

When I First Started I Didn't Know A Lot About The Job, So I Kinda Had To Figure It Out By Wire, Ya Know? It Was Hit And Miss, I Made Mistakes, And Fortunately I Was Able To Recover From Most Of 'em. But I Promised Myself If I Ever Get To A Point Where I Can Help Somebody That's Trying To Learn How To Do This, That I Would Try To Do That.

Rock And Roll Cola Wars, I Can't Take It Any More.

So Many Faces In And Out Of My Life Some Will Last Some Will Be Just Now And Then. Life Is A Series Of Hellos And Goodbyes I'm Afraid It's Time For Goodbye Again. Say Goodbye To Hollywood Say Goodbye My Baby Say Goodbye To Hollywood Say Goodbye My Baby.

As An Atheist You Have To Rationalize Things... Then You Have To Try And Make Some Sort Of Sense Out Of Your Problems. And If You Try And Find You Can't, You Have No Choice But To Be Good And Scared -- But That's Okay!

Those Who Have Expressed Doubts And Misgivings About Their Ability To Live This Kind Of Life Shouldn't Try, Because Being A Musician Is Not Something You Chose To Be, It Is Something You Are.

She's Got A Way About Her, And Everywhere She Goes, A Million Dreams Of Love Surround Her, Everywhere.

Don't Go Changing To Try And Please Me You Never Let Me Down Before Don't Imagine You're Too Familiar And I Don't See You Anymore I Would Not Leave You In 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 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.

I'm In A New York State Of Mind

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, It's A Terrible Business," Etc. But My Chorus Teacher In High School Said, "you've Got What It Takes To Be A Really Good Professional Musician, You Should Consider It." That Was An Epiphany For Me. So I Thought, Well, Maybe I Can Help Somebody, Too.

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