People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
BILLY JOELSometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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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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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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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.
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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