If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
BILLY JOELIn an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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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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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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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 don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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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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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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