Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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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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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. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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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.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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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
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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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!
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My songs are like my kids.
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