We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
BILLY JOELNobody 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.”
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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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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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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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 may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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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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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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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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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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