You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
BILLY JOELThere’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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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’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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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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