Billy Joel Quotes
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Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
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I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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If you want to know what life is like in the Soviet Union, go to your local department of motor vehicles.
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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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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.
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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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Clear as a crystal... Sharp as a knife...I feel like I'm in the prime of my life.
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Drank a lot of take home pay.
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.
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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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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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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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If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
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They're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone.
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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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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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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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I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking "Uptown Girl!" I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called "Ragdoll," which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
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We're on the verge of all things new.