Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
BILLY JOELI don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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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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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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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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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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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 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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I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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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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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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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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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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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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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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