I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
BILLY JOELIf you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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I’m single but interviewing.
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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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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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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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