They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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 took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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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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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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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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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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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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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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