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.
BILLY JOELIt’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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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 are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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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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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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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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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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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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