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.
BILLY JOELIf you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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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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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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