Billy Joel Quotes
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I watched the mighty skyline fall.
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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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The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
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If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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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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If I'm gonna be losing it, I might as well be doing it right.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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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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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
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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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Every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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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'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.
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You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
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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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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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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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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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The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well -- when I was in love with someone, and someone was loving me. But in my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets.