My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
BILLY JOELyou may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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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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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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Only the good die young.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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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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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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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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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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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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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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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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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
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