Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
BILLY JOELWe might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Only the good die young.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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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 don’t know why I go to extremes.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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