I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
BILLY JOELI’ve crashed my car three times.
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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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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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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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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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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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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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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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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