This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
BILLY JOELYou enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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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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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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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 consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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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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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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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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