It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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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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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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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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Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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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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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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