Billy Joel Quotes
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You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
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No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
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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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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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We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.
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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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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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Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honest is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...
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If you could only hear what I dream.
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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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I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.
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Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.
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I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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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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Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.
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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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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.
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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.