You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
BILLY JOELIf you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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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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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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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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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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You can speak your mind But not on my 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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I’m in a New York state of mind
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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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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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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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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’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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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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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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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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