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Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.
Billy Joel -
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.
Billy Joel
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I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.
Billy Joel -
Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
Billy Joel -
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
Billy Joel -
What if she figures out you're not very smart?
Billy Joel -
Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...
Billy Joel -
I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans.
Billy Joel
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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.
Billy Joel -
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.
Billy Joel -
I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
Billy Joel -
We're on the verge of all things new.
Billy Joel -
Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.
Billy Joel -
I don't know why I go to extremes.
Billy Joel
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
Billy Joel -
You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
Billy Joel -
I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.
Billy Joel -
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.
Billy Joel -
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.
Billy Joel -
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."
Billy Joel
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If I'm gonna be losing it, I might as well be doing it right.
Billy Joel -
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.
Billy Joel -
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.
Billy Joel -
I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
Billy Joel