You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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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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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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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 could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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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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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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