People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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More Billy Joel Quotes
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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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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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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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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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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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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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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