…And you’re the only one who knows.
BILLY JOELI can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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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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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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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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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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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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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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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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