Billy Joel Quotes
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.
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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 just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can't wait.
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Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.
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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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Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.
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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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...now as we induldge, in things refined,we hide our hearts, from harder times...
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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 thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking "Uptown Girl!" I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called "Ragdoll," which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.
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There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.
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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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The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
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No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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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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Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
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Classical music always had a great influence on me. In fact some of my songs have a classical theme in mind.
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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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You can speak your mind But not on my time.