We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
BILLY JOELThe whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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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 see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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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 Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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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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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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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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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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