You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
BILLY JOELPeople 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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I 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.
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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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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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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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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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