As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
BILLY JOELCall you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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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.
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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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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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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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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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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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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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