I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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More Billy Joel Quotes
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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Only the good die young.
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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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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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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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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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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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 took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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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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