It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
BILLY JOELMy daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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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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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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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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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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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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Only the good die young.
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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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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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