You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
BILLY JOELI 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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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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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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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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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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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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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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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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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 hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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