Billy Joel Quotes
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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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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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can't wait.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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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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If I'm gonna be losing it, I might as well be doing it right.
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Some people sleep all alone every night Instead of taking a lover to bed Some people find that it's easier to hate Than to wait anymore.
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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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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one.
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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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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Water has an endless horizon; there is no limitation when you look out into the water. There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself as far as it can possibly imagine. I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows of cornfields. There is something exhilarating about it.
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I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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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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I have a theory that is the only original things we ever do are mistakes. The only thing that we can really attribute to ourselves that is purely original are our screw-ups.
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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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Every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns.
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I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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Classical music always had a great influence on me. In fact some of my songs have a classical theme in mind.
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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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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.