Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOELMost people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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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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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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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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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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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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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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I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
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My songs are like my kids.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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