Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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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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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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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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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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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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