Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
BILLY JOELWorking too hard can give you a heart-attack.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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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.
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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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’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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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
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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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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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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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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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