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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.

Billy Joel

Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
BILLY JOEL

Color Philosophy Rainbow
Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
BILLY JOEL

Love Wasted Time
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.
BILLY JOEL

History Loved Music Musicologist Something
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
BILLY JOEL

Life Love Motivational
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
BILLY JOEL

Evil May Understanding
There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
BILLY JOEL

Alcohol Drug Men
Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
BILLY JOEL

Law Night Order
I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
BILLY JOEL

Music Probably Reason Started Writing
In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
BILLY JOEL

Comes Heart Past Sanctuary Strong
I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
BILLY JOEL

Girl Kind Rock Roll
Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
BILLY JOEL

Competition Crazy Poor School Teacher
I’m single but interviewing.
BILLY JOEL

Interviewing Person Single
She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
BILLY JOEL

Compliment Eye Smile
There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
BILLY JOEL

Islands Men Sea
Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
BILLY JOEL

Dirty Found Quality You
This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
BILLY JOEL

Forever Remember Sadness Want

Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.

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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.

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