Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
BILLY JOELWorking too hard can give you a heart-attack.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s 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.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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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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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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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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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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