Billy Joel Quotes
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I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.
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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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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.
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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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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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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...
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We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.
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From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.
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It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.
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If you could only hear what I dream.
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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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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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Classical music always had a great influence on me. In fact some of my songs have a classical theme in mind.
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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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No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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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 don't care what you say anymore, this is my life Go ahead with your own life and leave me alone.