Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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We're on the verge of all things new.
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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
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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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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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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.
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There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.
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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've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
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The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
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Water has an endless horizon; there is no limitation when you look out into the water. There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself as far as it can possibly imagine. I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows of cornfields. There is something exhilarating about it.
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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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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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Some people sleep all alone every night Instead of taking a lover to bed Some people find that it's easier to hate Than to wait anymore.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.billy
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You may be right I may be crazy But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.