Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
BILLY JOELDon’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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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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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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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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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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