In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
BILLY JOELDon’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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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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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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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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