Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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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The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
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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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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 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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We're on the verge of all things new.
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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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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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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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If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
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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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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
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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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You may be right I may be crazy But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.
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You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."
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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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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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'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.