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.
BILLY JOELMusicians 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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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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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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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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