What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
BILLY JOELI guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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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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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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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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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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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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I’m single but interviewing.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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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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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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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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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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