I’m in a New York state of mind
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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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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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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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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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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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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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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My songs are like my kids.
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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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Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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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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