People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
BILLY JOELThough it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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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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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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