And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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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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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times, I’ll take you just the way you are.
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We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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