Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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What if she figures out you're not very smart?
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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'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
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Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.
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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.
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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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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
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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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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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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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Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...
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I know how big business works. I don't trust it.
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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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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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If you want to know what life is like in the Soviet Union, go to your local department of motor vehicles.
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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.