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
BILLY JOELForced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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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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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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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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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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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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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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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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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 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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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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Only the good die young.
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