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 JOELI can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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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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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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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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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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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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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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