Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
BILLY JOELIt’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
More Billy Joel Quotes
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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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.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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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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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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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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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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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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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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