Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOELIt’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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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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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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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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When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
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