I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
BILLY JOELI 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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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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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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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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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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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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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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