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.
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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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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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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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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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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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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