I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
BILLY JOELYou enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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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’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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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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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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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.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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