It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
BILLY JOELI had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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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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My songs are like my kids.
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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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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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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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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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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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