Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
BILLY JOELArtist – 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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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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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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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’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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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 will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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