Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.
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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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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 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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Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
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I don't think what has happened to me is that different from what happens to most people. The only difference is the scale. People seem to think my problems are larger than life, but they're not larger than my life.
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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 would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording.
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From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.
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My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane!
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Part of me is afraid to let go of this other thing, which was so hugely successful. But on the other hand, I have to move ahead, or else my feet are stuck in the cement. I feel like I'm capable of writing other kinds of music, and I'm at a transitional time in my life.
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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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I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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They showed you a statue and told you to pray They built you a temple and locked you away But they never told you the price that you pay For things that you might have done.
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What if she figures out you're not very smart?
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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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I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."
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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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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.