Billy Joel Quotes
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The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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I promised I would never leave you And you should always know Wherever you may go No matter where you are I never will be far away.
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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
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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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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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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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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane!
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They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't.
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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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I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.
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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. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria...
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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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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.
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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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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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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.