Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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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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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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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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Sing 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.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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