I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
BILLY JOELyou may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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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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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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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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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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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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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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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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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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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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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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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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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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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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I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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