I don’t know why I go to extremes.
BILLY JOELDavey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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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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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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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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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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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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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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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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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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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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