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 JOELI keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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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 have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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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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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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