Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
BILLY JOELMy daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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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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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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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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