Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
BILLY JOELThis is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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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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