Billy Joel Quotes
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'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.
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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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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again.
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Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
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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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It's not just the market fluctuation. It's also what's going on with these big companies. Everyone's got questions about this.
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If I'm gonna be losing it, I might as well be doing it right.
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I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.
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If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.
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I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one.
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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.
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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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When you look into my eyes And you see the crazy gypsy in my soulIt always comes as a surprise When I feel my withered roots begin to grow Well I never had a place that I could call my very own That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
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Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. 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'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can't wait.
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If we're going to keep ourselves interested, we can't play for the reviewer and we can't just play for the audience. In the end, you have to just play for yourself.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.