Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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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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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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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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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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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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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?
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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