You may be wrong, but you may be right.
BILLY JOELSo before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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 may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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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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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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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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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 was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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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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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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