You only beat me if you get me to hate.
BILLY JOELI never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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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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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 believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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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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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 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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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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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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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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