I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
BILLY JOELLawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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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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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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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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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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