Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
BILLY JOELEven when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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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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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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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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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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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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My songs are like my kids.
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You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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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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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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