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.
BILLY JOELI see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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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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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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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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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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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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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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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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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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