Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
BILLY JOELI definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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.
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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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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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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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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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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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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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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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