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?
BILLY JOELWhy do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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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.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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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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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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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.
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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
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