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.
BILLY JOELDon’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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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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Only the good die young.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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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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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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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 watched the mighty skyline fall
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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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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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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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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