No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
BILLY JOELI guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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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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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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