In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
BILLY JOELMost 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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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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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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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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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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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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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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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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