I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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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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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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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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 am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times, I’ll take you just the way you are.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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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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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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