The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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 can linger too long in your dreams.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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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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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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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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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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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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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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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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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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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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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