I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
BILLY JOELThere’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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