Billy Joel Quotes
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It feels great to have a #1 album.
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They all want your white body, and they await your reply.But, between you and me, and this Staten Island ferry... so do I...
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.
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For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
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They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on.
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I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.
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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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I'm single but interviewing.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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I don't think of myself as a singer. The only reason I ever got onstage was to meet girls.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay!
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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I hate making videos. Songs are not visual. You get it out of the air. You don't watch it on MTV.
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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance.
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You see firemen, you see cops, and these guys risk their lives everyday. They do this all the time . . . to be able to see a smile on some of these people's faces -- they've gone through so much, they've lost so many of their friends.
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You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
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Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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They say that these are not the best of times But they're the only times I've ever known And I believe there is a time for meditation In cathedrals of our own.
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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
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I ride my own motorcycles, People are like, 'God, the guy is bad enough on cars!' Actually I have a better track record on bikes than I do with cars.
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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You've got yoga honey I've got beer You got overpriced And I got weird.