Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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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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All she wanted was sax.
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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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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 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.
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Every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns.
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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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If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
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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 have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
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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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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'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 work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.
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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 not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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I'd start a revolution but I don't have timeI don't know why I'm still a nice guy.