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 JOELWorking too hard can give you a heart-attack.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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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.
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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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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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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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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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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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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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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