I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
BILLY JOELAs 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!
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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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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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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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 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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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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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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My songs are like my kids.
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