Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
BILLY JOELThis is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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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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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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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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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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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 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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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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