Billy Joel Quotes
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.
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Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.
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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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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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If I'm crazy then it's true That it's all because of you And you wouldn't want me any other way.
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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. 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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I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."
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I've only felt content a few times in my life, and it never lasted. I'm very discontented right now. There are situations in my life that didn't pan out. I'm like most other human beings. I try and I fail.
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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.billy
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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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You can't go home with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't sleep with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You don't get hugged by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and you don't have children with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I want what everybody else wants: to love and to be loved, and to have a family. Being in love has always been the most important thing in my life.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
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She can kill with a smile, She can wound with her eyes.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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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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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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People who are looking for art in rock 'n' roll or pop are looking for something that either doesn't or shouldn't exist.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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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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I thinking of people like Phil Ramone or George Martin.
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I was amazed by the way all of that played out in the media. To me, a musician going to rehab is like a normal person going to get his teeth cleaned. Don't these people ever watch ""Behind the Music""? It's a cliche. If I had known that the story was going to be reported in the way that it was, I would have considered not going at all.
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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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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?