It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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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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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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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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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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