Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I have a theory that is the only original things we ever do are mistakes. The only thing that we can really attribute to ourselves that is purely original are our screw-ups.
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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 could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
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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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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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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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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 may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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I was amazed by the way all of that played out in the media. To me, a musician going to rehab is like a normal person going to get his teeth cleaned. Don't these people ever watch ""Behind the Music""? It's a cliche. If I had known that the story was going to be reported in the way that it was, I would have considered not going at all.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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And the word spread of Billy the Kid.
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Go on and cry in your coffee, but don't come bitching to me.
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Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.
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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've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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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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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one.
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I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on.
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Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.
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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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I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.