There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
BILLY JOELAnd you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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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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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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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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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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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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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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