There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
BILLY JOELI’ve crashed my car three times.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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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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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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