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.
BILLY JOELMusicians 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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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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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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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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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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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 Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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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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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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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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