Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
BILLY JOELIt should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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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 never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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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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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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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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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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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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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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