Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
BILLY JOELLife is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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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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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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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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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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