I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
BILLY JOELYou may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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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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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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