Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
BILLY JOELThere will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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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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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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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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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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