Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
BILLY JOELNobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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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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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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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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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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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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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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