I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
BILLY JOELShe’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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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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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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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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I 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.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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