Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?
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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 don't care what you say anymore, this is my life Go ahead with your own life and leave me alone.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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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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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
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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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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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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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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 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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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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Go on and cry in your coffee, but don't come bitching to me.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
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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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If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall.
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I always hated my hair, so now it's going away.
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But I don't want some pretty face To tell me pretty lies All I want is someone to believe.
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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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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.