Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
BILLY JOELThere are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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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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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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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 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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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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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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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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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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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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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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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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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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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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