My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
BILLY JOELIn hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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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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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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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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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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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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