Billy Joel Quotes
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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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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What if she figures out you're not very smart?
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Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.
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I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."
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I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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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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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane!
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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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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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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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They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't.
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Now, we lives our lives...So nonchalant...We spend our time...So 'Bon Vivant'...Our stylish nights...So well-arranged...Those tasteful words that we exchange...We know it's all a passing phase.
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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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Clear as a crystal... Sharp as a knife...I feel like I'm in the prime of my life.
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Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...
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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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No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
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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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Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.