I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
BILLY JOELI’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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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’m in a New York state of mind
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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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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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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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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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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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Only the good die young.
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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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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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