You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
BILLY JOELI’m in a New York state of mind
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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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.
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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