Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
BILLY JOELThe 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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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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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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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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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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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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