When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
BILLY JOELI’m in a New York state of mind
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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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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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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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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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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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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