When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
BILLY JOELDon’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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 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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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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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 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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Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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