It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
BILLY JOELI’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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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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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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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 consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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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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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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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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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
BILLY JOEL