Billy Joel Quotes
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
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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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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 believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.
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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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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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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.
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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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The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
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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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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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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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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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They're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend he refuses to crawl And he's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And struggles and bleeds as he hangs on his cross And likes to be known as the angry young man.
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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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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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...now as we induldge, in things refined,we hide our hearts, from harder times...
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.