Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
BILLY JOELI’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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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 have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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