Billy Joel Quotes
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She's got a way about her...I don't know what it is... but I know that I can't live without her...
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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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I don't want clever conversationI never want to work that hard.
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I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that.
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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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She's got a smile that heals me I don't know why it is But I have to laugh when she reveals me.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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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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It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, 'Son, can you play me a memory?/ I'm not really sure how it goes / But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.'
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Well so, here I am at the end of the road Where do I go from here?
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If I'm crazy then it's true That it's all because of you And you wouldn't want me any other way.
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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.
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So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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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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I've crashed my car three times.
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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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Do what's good for you Or you're not good for anybody.
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Who was wrong? Who was right?It didn't matter in the thick of the fight...
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People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.
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You Catholic girls start much too late But sooner or later it comes down to fate I might as well be the one.