I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
BILLY JOELBut 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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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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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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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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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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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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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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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.
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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