But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
BILLY JOELI always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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We 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.
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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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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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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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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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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’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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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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Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
BILLY JOEL