Billy Joel Quotes
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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
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I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
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Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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Go on and cry in your coffee, but don't come bitching to me.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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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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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
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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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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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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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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I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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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 am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans.
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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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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'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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But I don't want some pretty face To tell me pretty lies All I want is someone to believe.