I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
BILLY JOELI’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
More Billy Joel Quotes
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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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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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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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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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. 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.
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