Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
BILLY JOELWhere have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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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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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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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.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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