Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.
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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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...now as we induldge, in things refined,we hide our hearts, from harder times...
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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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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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What if she figures out you're not very smart?
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.
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The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?
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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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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've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music. More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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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 don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.
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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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We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.