I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
BILLY JOELTwyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
More Billy Joel Quotes
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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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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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.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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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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