People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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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.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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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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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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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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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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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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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 just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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