In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
BILLY JOELIf you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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