Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.
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Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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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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Clear as a crystal... Sharp as a knife...I feel like I'm in the prime of my life.
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. 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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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.
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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Well, he robbed his way from Utah to Oklahoma And the law just could not seem to track him down And it served his legend well For the folks, they'd love to tell 'Bout when Billy the Kid came to town.
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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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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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All she wanted was sax.
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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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I know how big business works. I don't trust it.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...
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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
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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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I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.
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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.