I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
BILLY JOELWhen I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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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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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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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.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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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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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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