Billy Joel Quotes
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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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It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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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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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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Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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Drank a lot of take home pay.
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If you could only hear what I dream.
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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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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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I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.
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We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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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.
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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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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 look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...
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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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She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.
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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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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.