Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOELI don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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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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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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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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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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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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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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