Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
BILLY JOELYou enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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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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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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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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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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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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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. 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.
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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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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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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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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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