Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
BILLY JOELWe 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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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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