I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
BILLY JOELYou should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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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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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still 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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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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