When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
BILLY JOELI 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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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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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 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.
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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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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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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We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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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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