Billy Joel Quotes
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Go on and cry in your coffee, but don't come bitching to me.
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If we're going to keep ourselves interested, we can't play for the reviewer and we can't just play for the audience. In the end, you have to just play for yourself.
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Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.
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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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The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.
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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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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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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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I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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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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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 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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I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.
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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.
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It's not just the market fluctuation. It's also what's going on with these big companies. Everyone's got questions about this.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.
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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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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.
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But I don't want some pretty face To tell me pretty lies All I want is someone to believe.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.