My songs are like my kids.
BILLY JOELSay goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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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 don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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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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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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