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.
BILLY JOELRemember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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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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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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 could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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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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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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