Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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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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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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
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They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on.
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All she wanted was sax.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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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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Clear as a crystal... Sharp as a knife...I feel like I'm in the prime of my life.
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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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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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Every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns.
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I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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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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Shades of grey wherever I go The more I find out the less that I know Black and white is how it should be But shades of grey are the colors I see.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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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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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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And the word spread of Billy the Kid.
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You may never understand How the Stranger is inspired, But he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong. Though you drown in good intentions, You will never quench the fire. You'll give in to your desire When the Stranger comes along.