Billy Joel Quotes
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Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.
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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
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They're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone.
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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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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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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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can't wait.
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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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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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Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.
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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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...now as we induldge, in things refined,we hide our hearts, from harder times...
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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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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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We didn't start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on and on and on...
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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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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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No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
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Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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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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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.