Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
BILLY JOELThere’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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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 can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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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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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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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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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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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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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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