I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
BILLY JOELI consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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I’m single but interviewing.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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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 think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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In 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.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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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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