You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
BILLY JOELI am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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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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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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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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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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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 Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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