Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
BILLY JOELDavey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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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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In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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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 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 might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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My songs are like my kids.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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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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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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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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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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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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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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But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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