I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
BILLY JOELIt’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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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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Only the good die young.
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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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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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