Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
BILLY JOELVideos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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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’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.
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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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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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