I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
BILLY JOELWhy don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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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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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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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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