Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
BILLY JOELI don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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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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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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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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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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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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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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