I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
BILLY JOELI remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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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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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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Only the good die young.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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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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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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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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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
BILLY JOEL







