We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
BILLY JOELThere’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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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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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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