You can linger too long in your dreams.
BILLY JOELIf you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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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.
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Nobody 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.”
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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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’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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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 was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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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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Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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