Billy Joel Quotes
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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.
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If I'm gonna be losing it, I might as well be doing it right.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one.
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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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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
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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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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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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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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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Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.
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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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The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
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I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.
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You may be right I may be crazy But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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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 did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
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I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
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Shades of grey wherever I go The more I find out the less that I know Black and white is how it should be But shades of grey are the colors I see.
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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 always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.
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There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.