As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
BILLY JOELI 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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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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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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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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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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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 to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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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 believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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