In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
BILLY JOELTwyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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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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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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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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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.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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