Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
BILLY JOELPeople in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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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 would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times, I’ll take you just the way you are.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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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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