When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
BILLY JOELI think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I’m single but interviewing.
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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 believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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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’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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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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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
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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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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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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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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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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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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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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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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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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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