I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
BILLY JOELYou may be wrong, but you may be right.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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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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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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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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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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