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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.

Billy Joel

Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
BILLY JOEL

Love Wasted Time
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.
BILLY JOEL

Country Political Soldiers Trying
I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
BILLY JOEL

Angry Discontented Regret Relationship
I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
BILLY JOEL

Music Probably Reason Started Writing
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
BILLY JOEL

Mistakes Originals Theory
Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
BILLY JOEL

Goes Gone Someday
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
BILLY JOEL

Giving Hate People
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
BILLY JOEL

Country Frozen Halloween Listened World
I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
BILLY JOEL

Active Issues Mind Writing
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.
BILLY JOEL

Blue Commercial Country Rocks
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
BILLY JOEL

Blac Color Philosophy White
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
BILLY JOEL

Distance Much Resistance Too
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
BILLY JOEL

Men Rejection Thinking
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOEL

Courage Fighting Title
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.
BILLY JOEL

Feel Good Night People
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.
BILLY JOEL

Clever Love Want

I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.

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