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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
Billy Joel -
She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
Billy Joel
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She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
Billy Joel -
Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair. . . . I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
Billy Joel -
Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
Billy Joel -
Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you'll never make it, there's too much competition, it's a terrible business," etc. But my chorus teacher in high school said, "you've got what it takes to be a really good professional musician, you should consider it." That was an epiphany for me. So I thought, well, maybe I can help somebody, too.
Billy Joel -
Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honest is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you.
Billy Joel -
My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane!
Billy Joel
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
Billy Joel -
I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
Billy Joel -
We were sharp... as sharp as knives. And we were so gung-ho to lay down our lives...
Billy Joel -
I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.
Billy Joel -
Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
Billy Joel -
I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand Another serenader and another long haired band Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts, But I know the game, you'll forget my name, And I won't be here in another year If I don't stay on the charts.
Billy Joel
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I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
Billy Joel -
You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
Billy Joel -
I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music. More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
Billy Joel -
I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
Billy Joel -
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
Billy Joel -
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
Billy Joel
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
Billy Joel -
All she wanted was sax.
Billy Joel -
Part of me is afraid to let go of this other thing, which was so hugely successful. But on the other hand, I have to move ahead, or else my feet are stuck in the cement. I feel like I'm capable of writing other kinds of music, and I'm at a transitional time in my life.
Billy Joel -
If you could only hear what I dream.
Billy Joel