I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
BILLY JOELI don’t know why I go to extremes.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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Only the good die young.
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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 can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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When 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.
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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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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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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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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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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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 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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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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