I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
BILLY JOELHot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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 am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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Only the good die young.
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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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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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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