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 JOELDon’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Only the good die young.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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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.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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