Billy Joel Quotes
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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 Honest is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you.
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They showed you a statue and told you to pray They built you a temple and locked you away But they never told you the price that you pay For things that you might have done.
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I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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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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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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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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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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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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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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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.
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All she wanted was sax.
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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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Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!
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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 sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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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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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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You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for.
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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 will promise you more Than the Garden of Eden Then she'll carelessly cut you And laugh while you're bleeding.