Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
BILLY JOELNo end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
More Billy Joel Quotes
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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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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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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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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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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