People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
BILLY JOELWhen I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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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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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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My songs are like my kids.
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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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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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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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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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