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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

You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
BILLY JOEL

Money Overtime Pay Uncles Work
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
BILLY JOEL

Listen Rocks Roll Vitality
If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
BILLY JOEL

Kids Kids Want Something Tell
My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
BILLY JOEL

Being Crazy Sane
Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
BILLY JOEL

Heart Love Lying
I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
BILLY JOEL

Country Political Soldiers Trying
We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
BILLY JOEL

Alcohol Drug Soul
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.
BILLY JOEL

Break Decision Make One Only
There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
BILLY JOEL

Kindness People Reality
If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
BILLY JOEL

Human Music Need Same Things
I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
BILLY JOEL

Boredom Children Reality
You can linger too long in your dreams.
BILLY JOEL

Dream Linger Long
I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
BILLY JOEL

Mets Thinking Type
When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
BILLY JOEL

Club Jobs Musician
You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
BILLY JOEL

Ambition Dream Passion
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
BILLY JOEL

Causes Giving Musician

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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