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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

They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
BILLY JOEL

Believe Eye Sadness
When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
BILLY JOEL

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

Giving Heart Work
We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
BILLY JOEL

Hurt Laughing might
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
Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
BILLY JOEL

Heart Love Lying
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
BILLY JOEL

Criticism Honor Praise Received Sometimes
I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
BILLY JOEL

Antiques May Stones
There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
BILLY JOEL

Islands Men Sea
I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
BILLY JOEL

Believe Clouds Important
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
BILLY JOEL

Arabia Country Lawrence Place
I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
BILLY JOEL

Age Birthday Insecurity
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.
BILLY JOEL

Club Jobs Musician
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

Love Wasted Time
I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
BILLY JOEL

Booze Couple Hard Nothing Times
We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
BILLY JOEL

Humans Making Mistakes Suppose

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