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.
BILLY JOELI have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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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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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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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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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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My songs are like my kids.
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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems
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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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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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