We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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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When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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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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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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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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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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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times, I’ll take you just the way you are.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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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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We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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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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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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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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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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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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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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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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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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