I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
BILLY JOELThere’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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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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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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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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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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