I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
BILLY JOELMy friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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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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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 Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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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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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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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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