Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
BILLY JOELShe can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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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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I’m single but interviewing.
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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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