I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
BILLY JOELI’m in a New York state of mind
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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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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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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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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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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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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