Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
BILLY JOELyou may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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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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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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