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 JOELHope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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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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Artist – 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.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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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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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
BILLY JOEL







