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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.

Billy Joel

Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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Blac Color Philosophy White
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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Life Love Motivational
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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Evil May Understanding
There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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Butter Peanut Sex Witty
I would not leave you in your times of trouble. 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.
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Good Times Trouble Way
You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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Cake Loneliness Love Mistakes Smile
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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Musician Safety Wire
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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Artist Perception Sea
I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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Age Entertainer Idols Magazines Money
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
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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Careers Materials Together
You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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Girl Shame Walk
You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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Enrich Expressions Kids Songs
There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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Away Going Houston Kids
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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Art Honesty Kidding Part Truth
You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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Given Needs Relationship
Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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Allowed Mistakes Sometimes Takes
They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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Known Life Only Time
So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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Baby Faces Goodbye Hollywood Life Many Series
Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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Anybody Country Good Life
I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
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Matter Right Views Wrong
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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Causes Home Love True
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Distance Much Resistance Too
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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Atheists Evil Fear Problem Realize
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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Memories Regular Shuffles Son Sweet
What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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Believe Friendship Way
I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
BILLY JOEL

Civil Dominate Politics Servant

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