I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
BILLY JOELThis 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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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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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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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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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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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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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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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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