I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
BILLY JOELCall me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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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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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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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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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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