Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
BILLY JOELI 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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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 am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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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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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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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 really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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