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.
BILLY JOELI may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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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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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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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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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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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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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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Only the good die young.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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