And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
BILLY JOELIf you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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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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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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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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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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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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