Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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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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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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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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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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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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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’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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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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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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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.
BILLY JOEL