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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

Billy Joel

Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
BILLY JOEL

Giving Heart Work
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 sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
BILLY JOEL

House Jerry Sold
I’m in a New York state of mind
BILLY JOEL

Country Mind States
You only beat me if you get me to hate.
BILLY JOEL

Beats Hate Only
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
BILLY JOEL

Causes Home Love True
Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
BILLY JOEL

Back Becomes Coming Seemed
Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
BILLY JOEL

Empathy People Thinking
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
BILLY JOEL

Art Created Looks Portraits
No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
BILLY JOEL

Healing Matter Music
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
BILLY JOEL

Cold Junk Punk Rocks Roll
Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
BILLY JOEL

Moment Now South Trying
Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
BILLY JOEL

Around Long Sit Song Writing
I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
BILLY JOEL

Mother Piano Years
So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
BILLY JOEL

Drink Night Relationship
There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
BILLY JOEL

Butter Peanut Sex Witty

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