Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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 am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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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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My songs are like my kids.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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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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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 don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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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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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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