Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
BILLY JOELIf it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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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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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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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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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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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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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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