I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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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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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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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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Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
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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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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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