I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
BILLY JOELThey say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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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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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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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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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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