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.”
BILLY JOELWe 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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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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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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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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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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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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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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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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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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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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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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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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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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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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