You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
BILLY JOELWhen 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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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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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. 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.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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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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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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