Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
BILLY JOELThere ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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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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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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