People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
BILLY JOELWhy don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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