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 JOELThough you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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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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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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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.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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