Billy Joel Quotes
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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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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I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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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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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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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 can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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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 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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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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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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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've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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...now as we induldge, in things refined,we hide our hearts, from harder times...
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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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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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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.
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Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.