Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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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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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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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've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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You may never understand How the Stranger is inspired, But he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong. Though you drown in good intentions, You will never quench the fire. You'll give in to your desire When the Stranger comes along.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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If I'm gonna be losing it, I might as well be doing it right.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.
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Every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns.
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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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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one.
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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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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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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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Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.
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I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.