I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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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I’m in a New York state of mind
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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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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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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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.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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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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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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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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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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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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