I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
BILLY JOELIt’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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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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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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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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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
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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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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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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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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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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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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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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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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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