Billy Joel Quotes
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I know how big business works. I don't trust it.
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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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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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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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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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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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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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Drank a lot of take home pay.
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All she wanted was sax.
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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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I don't know why people thought I was retiring.
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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.
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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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Clear as a crystal... Sharp as a knife...I feel like I'm in the prime of my life.
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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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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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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."
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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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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'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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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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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.