My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
BILLY JOELStreetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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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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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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