I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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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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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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