But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
BILLY JOELRemember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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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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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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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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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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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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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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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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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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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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