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.
BILLY JOELDon’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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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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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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