Billy Joel Quotes
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I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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I don't know why I go to extremes.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall.
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She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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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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Honesty is such a lonely word Everyone is so untrue Honest is hardly ever heard And mostly what I need from you.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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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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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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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 don't know why people thought I was retiring.
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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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We're on the verge of all things new.
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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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Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.
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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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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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I know how big business works. I don't trust it.
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You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
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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."