You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
BILLY JOELIf you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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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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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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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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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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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.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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