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.
BILLY JOELI started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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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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Only the good die young.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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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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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.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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