More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
BILLY JOELWhy don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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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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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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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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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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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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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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