I’m in a New York state of mind
BILLY JOELWhy do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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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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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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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 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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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 watched the mighty skyline fall
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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