I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
BILLY JOELYou get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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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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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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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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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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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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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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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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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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