I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
BILLY JOELArtist – 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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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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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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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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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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