Billy Joel Quotes
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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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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honest is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you.
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I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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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.
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I know how big business works. I don't trust it.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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Part of me is afraid to let go of this other thing, which was so hugely successful. But on the other hand, I have to move ahead, or else my feet are stuck in the cement. I feel like I'm capable of writing other kinds of music, and I'm at a transitional time in my life.
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I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.
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You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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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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'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.
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Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.
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I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.
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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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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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All she wanted was sax.
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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.