Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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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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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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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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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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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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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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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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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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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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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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