Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
BILLY JOELSing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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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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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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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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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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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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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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