When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
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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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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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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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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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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