Billy Joel Quotes
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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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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All she wanted was sax.
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Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.
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I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
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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.
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We're on the verge of all things new.
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When you look into my eyes And you see the crazy gypsy in my soulIt always comes as a surprise When I feel my withered roots begin to grow Well I never had a place that I could call my very own That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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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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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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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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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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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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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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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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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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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
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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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There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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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 people thought I was retiring.