You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
BILLY JOELMost of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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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.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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