I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
BILLY JOELWe all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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’m single but interviewing.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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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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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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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 haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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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.”
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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Only the good die young.
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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