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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

Billy Joel

Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
BILLY JOEL

Fine Slow Down Want
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
BILLY JOEL

Blood Hot Writing
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
BILLY JOEL

Art Honesty Kidding Part Truth
And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
BILLY JOEL

Old Share Told Truth
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
Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
BILLY JOEL

Dream Vienna Waiting
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOEL

Family Like Musician Tied
Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
BILLY JOEL

Beethoven Guys Phenomenal Productivity Some
Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
BILLY JOEL

Competition Crazy Poor School Teacher
There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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Kindness People Reality
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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Education Graduate School Self Teacher
I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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Mets Thinking Type
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
BILLY JOEL

Life Love Motivational
If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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Kids Kids Want Something Tell
Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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Advice Cheap Take
You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
BILLY JOEL

Hard Old Rock Roll

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

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