You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
BILLY JOELDon’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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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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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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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.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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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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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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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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