Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
BILLY JOELShe’s got a smile that heals me.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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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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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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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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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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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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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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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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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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