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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.
Billy Joel -
You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
Billy Joel
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
Billy Joel -
I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life Go ahead with your own life and leave me alone.
Billy Joel -
Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
Billy Joel -
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
Billy Joel -
Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
Billy Joel -
She will promise you more Than the Garden of Eden Then she'll carelessly cut you And laugh while you're bleeding.
Billy Joel
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If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
Billy Joel -
I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
Billy Joel -
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Billy Joel -
Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."
Billy Joel -
Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
Billy Joel -
You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
Billy Joel
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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.
Billy Joel -
But I don't want some pretty face To tell me pretty lies All I want is someone to believe.
Billy Joel -
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
Billy Joel -
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.
Billy Joel -
I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
Billy Joel -
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.
Billy Joel
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
Billy Joel -
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.
Billy Joel -
I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.
Billy Joel -
You may be right I may be crazy But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.
Billy Joel