Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
BILLY JOELThere are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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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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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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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 Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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