Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
BILLY JOELI can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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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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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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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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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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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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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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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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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 Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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