I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
BILLY JOELI’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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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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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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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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