I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
BILLY JOELYou’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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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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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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