Billy Joel Quotes
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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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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 know why I go to extremes.
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There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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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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If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
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Go on and cry in your coffee, but don't come bitching to me.
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I always hated my hair, so now it's going away.
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Drank a lot of take home pay.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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We're on the verge of all things new.
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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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 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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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.