Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
BILLY JOELIf you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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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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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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