People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
BILLY JOELI have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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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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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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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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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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