She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
BILLY JOELMore than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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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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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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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.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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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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But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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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.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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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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