I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
BILLY JOELNobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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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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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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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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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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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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In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
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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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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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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 had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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