I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
BILLY JOELMy friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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I 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.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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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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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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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.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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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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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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