If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
BILLY JOELI can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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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.
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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
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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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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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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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