She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
BILLY JOELMusicians 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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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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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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