Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
BILLY JOELIf you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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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 having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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I’m single but interviewing.
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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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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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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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