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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.

Billy Joel

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.
BILLY JOEL

Criticism Honor Praise Received Sometimes
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
BILLY JOEL

Goodbye Life Series
She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
BILLY JOEL

Cutting Evil Laughing
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.
BILLY JOEL

Club Jobs Musician
I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
BILLY JOEL

Boredom Children Reality
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
BILLY JOEL

Crazy Mind People
I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times, I’ll take you just the way you are.
BILLY JOEL

Good Times Trouble Way
Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
BILLY JOEL

Fine Slow Down Want
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.
BILLY JOEL

Giving Mind Waiting
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
BILLY JOEL

Art Literature Music
There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
BILLY JOEL

Life Other Stories Story
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.
BILLY JOEL

Alcohol Drug Soul
Nobody’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.”
BILLY JOEL

Everybody Famous Really Town
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.
BILLY JOEL

Break Decision Make One Only
Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
BILLY JOEL

Doors Opening People
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.
BILLY JOEL

Causes Giving Musician
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
BILLY JOEL

Musician Safety Wire
You can linger too long in your dreams.
BILLY JOEL

Dream Linger Long
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
BILLY JOEL

Blood Hot Writing
She’s got a smile that heals me.
BILLY JOEL

Compliment Heal Smile
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
BILLY JOEL

Listen Rocks Roll Vitality
I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
BILLY JOEL

Knows Play Said
Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
BILLY JOEL

Changing Friendship Please Song
Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
BILLY JOEL

Anyway One Songs
My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
BILLY JOEL

Autograph Daughter Missions
I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
BILLY JOEL

People Retirement Retiring
You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
BILLY JOEL

Enrich Expressions Kids Songs

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