Billy Joel Quotes
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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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They're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone.
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...now as we induldge, in things refined,we hide our hearts, from harder times...
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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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What if she figures out you're not very smart?
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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
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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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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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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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The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
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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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Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.
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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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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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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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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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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 are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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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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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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Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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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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We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.