You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
BILLY JOELI started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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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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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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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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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.
BILLY JOEL