I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
BILLY JOELI’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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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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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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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.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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