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 JOELDo what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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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 will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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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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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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