Billy Joel Quotes
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I was homeless when I was younger and I was suicidal when I was 21. Anything that has happened after that is like water off a duck's back.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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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.
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We didn't start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on and on and on...
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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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.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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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?
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Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.
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I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.
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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.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!
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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.
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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.
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I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.
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I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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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.
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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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We were sharp... as sharp as knives. And we were so gung-ho to lay down our lives...
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In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.