Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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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.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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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 said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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