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.
BILLY JOELI definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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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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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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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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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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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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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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