Billy Joel Quotes
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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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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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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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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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The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
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It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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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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Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.
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You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
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Drank a lot of take home pay.
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She will promise you more Than the Garden of Eden Then she'll carelessly cut you And laugh while you're bleeding.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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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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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 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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We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.
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If you could only hear what I dream.
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I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.
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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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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue...
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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 know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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I would not leave you in your 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.