When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
BILLY JOELI’m single but interviewing.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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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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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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