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Ive come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, its a Greek

Ive come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, its a Greek tragedy. – Billy Joel

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When I was 19, I made my first good weeks 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

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Food
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Billy Joel
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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? – Billy Joel

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Other Quotes from
Tragedy
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We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. – Aldous Huxley

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Tragedy

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

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Tragedy

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. – Ernst Fischer

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Tragedy

Down went the owners — greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured. – W. S. Gilbert

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Tragedy

Random Quotes

No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early. – Groucho Marx

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Time

Poets are candid. They tell us not under an abstract, but an individual form, in which reality breathes, what humanity thinks in the most secret recesses of its mind. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet

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Leadership

If one plays good music, people dont listen and if one plays bad music people dont talk. – Oscar Wilde

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good