Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
BILLY JOELMore than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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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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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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