Billy Joel Quotes
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You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.
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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 watched the mighty skyline fall.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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If I'm gonna be losing it, I might as well be doing it right.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.billy
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I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
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You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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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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If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.
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Some people sleep all alone every night Instead of taking a lover to bed Some people find that it's easier to hate Than to wait anymore.
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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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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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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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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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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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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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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've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.