It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
BILLY JOELLike family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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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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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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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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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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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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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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