If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
BILLY JOELCritics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We 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.
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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.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
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In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
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Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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