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.
BILLY JOELI’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
More Billy Joel Quotes
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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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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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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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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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 definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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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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