Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
BILLY JOELI don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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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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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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