You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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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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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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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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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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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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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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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