Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
BILLY JOELShe can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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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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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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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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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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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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My songs are like my kids.
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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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