Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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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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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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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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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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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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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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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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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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