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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

Billy Joel

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.
BILLY JOEL

Alcohol Drug Soul
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
BILLY JOEL

Life Love Motivational
You can speak your mind But not on my time.
BILLY JOEL

Mind Song Speak Time
Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
BILLY JOEL

Easy Harmonizing Needs Stage
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
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
BILLY JOEL

Autograph Daughter Missions
Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
BILLY JOEL

Advice Answers Waiting
There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
BILLY JOEL

Life Other Stories Story
I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
BILLY JOEL

Parent Piano Play Years
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.
BILLY JOEL

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.
BILLY JOEL

Age Entertainer Idols Magazines Money
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.
BILLY JOEL

Forever Remember Sadness Want
People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
BILLY JOEL

Believe Lying People
Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
BILLY JOEL

Giving Mind Waiting
They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
BILLY JOEL

Evil Heaven Waiting
We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
BILLY JOEL

Dream Ocean Rivers
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
BILLY JOEL

Angel Come Future Miracle War World
Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
BILLY JOEL

Everybody Famous Really Town
I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
BILLY JOEL

Antiques May Stones
Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
BILLY JOEL

Doors Opening People
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.
BILLY JOEL

Help Point Promised Something Try
Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
BILLY JOEL

Moment Now South Trying
They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
BILLY JOEL

Known Life Only Time
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
BILLY JOEL

Demand Music Successful
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
BILLY JOEL

Goodbye Life Series
I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
BILLY JOEL

Boys Drinking Inspirational
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
BILLY JOEL

Blood Hot Writing

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