Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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 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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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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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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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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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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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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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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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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My songs are like my kids.
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