Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
BILLY JOELHonesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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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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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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