I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
BILLY JOELRock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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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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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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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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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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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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Only the good die young.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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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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