I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
BILLY JOELI was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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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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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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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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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. 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.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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