You can linger too long in your dreams.
BILLY JOELHistorically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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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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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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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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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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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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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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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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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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