Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
BILLY JOELIn 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
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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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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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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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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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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 want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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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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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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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times, I’ll take you just the way you are.
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