The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
BILLY JOELYou just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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 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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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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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.
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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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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I’m single but interviewing.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Only the good die young.
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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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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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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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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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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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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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