I don’t know why I go to extremes.
BILLY JOELI believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems
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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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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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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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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 believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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