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.
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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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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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 have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
BILLY JOEL







