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?
BILLY JOELYou’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
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Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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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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I’m single but interviewing.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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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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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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