You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
BILLY JOELYou want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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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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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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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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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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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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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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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
BILLY JOEL