If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
BILLY JOELI hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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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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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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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