Billy Joel Quotes
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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've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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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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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Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.
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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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My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane!
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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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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
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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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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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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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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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What if she figures out you're not very smart?
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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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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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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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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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I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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Now, we lives our lives...So nonchalant...We spend our time...So 'Bon Vivant'...Our stylish nights...So well-arranged...Those tasteful words that we exchange...We know it's all a passing phase.
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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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Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.