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.
BILLY JOELIn hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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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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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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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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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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