I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
BILLY JOELLike family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
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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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I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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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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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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