I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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My songs are like my kids.
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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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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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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.
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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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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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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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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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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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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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