Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
BILLY JOELPeople in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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My songs are like my kids.
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But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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