And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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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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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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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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