There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
BILLY JOELI 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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 never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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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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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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