If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
BILLY JOELYou only beat me if you get me to hate.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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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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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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Why 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.
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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’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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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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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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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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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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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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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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