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.
BILLY JOELWe 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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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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My songs are like my kids.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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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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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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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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