Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
BILLY JOELDo what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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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 am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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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.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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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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Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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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.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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