Billy Joel Quotes
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You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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 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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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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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.
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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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They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't.
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane!
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
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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 don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.
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No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
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Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.
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It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand Another serenader and another long haired band Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts, But I know the game, you'll forget my name, And I won't be here in another year If I don't stay on the charts.
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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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I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.