If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
BILLY JOELWhat if she figures out you’re not very smart?
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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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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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 we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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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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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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