Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
BILLY JOELDon’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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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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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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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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