I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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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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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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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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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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