Billy Joel Quotes
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I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.
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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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You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
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Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.
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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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I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.
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If you could only hear what I dream.
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There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.
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She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.
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Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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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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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 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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No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
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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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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've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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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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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.