I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
BILLY JOELDon’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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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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We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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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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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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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 not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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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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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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