Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
BILLY JOELIn every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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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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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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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 can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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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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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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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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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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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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You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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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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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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This 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.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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