We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
BILLY JOELLife is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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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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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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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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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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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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