Billy Joel Quotes
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Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.
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If you could only hear what I dream.
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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, 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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We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.
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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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They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't.
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It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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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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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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Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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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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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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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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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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Well, he robbed his way from Utah to Oklahoma And the law just could not seem to track him down And it served his legend well For the folks, they'd love to tell 'Bout when Billy the Kid came to town.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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All she wanted was sax.
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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 have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.