I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
BILLY JOELWhen I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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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 think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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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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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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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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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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