I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
BILLY JOELCritics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems
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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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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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My songs are like my kids.
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