Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
BILLY JOELThere was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
More Billy Joel Quotes
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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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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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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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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