Billy Joel Quotes - Page 11

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• I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.

  Billy Joel

  House, Jerry

  "Pop quiz classic: Billy Joel". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. 2001.

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• My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane!

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  Crazy, Being Crazy, Sane

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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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  Men, Islands, Sea

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• No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

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  Music, Healing, Matter

  Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

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• I would not leave you in your times of trouble. 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.

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  Way, Good Times, Trouble

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• Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real

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  Teacher, Wall, Real

  Song: Allentown, Album: The Nylon Curtain, 1982

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• There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be

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  War, Future, Angel

  Song: Two Thousand Years, Album: River of Dreams, 1993

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• Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

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  Courage, Fighting, Titles

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• I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ... My songs are like my kids.

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  Song, Kids, Writing

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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?/ I'm not really sure how it goes / But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.'

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  Sweet, Memories, Son

  Song: Piano Man, Album: Piano Man, 1973

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• I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.

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  Views, Matter, Wrong Or Right

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• A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

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  Golf, Musician, Typical

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• I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

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  Music, Healing, Thinking

  Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

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• We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it

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  Fighting, Light, Fire

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Jan 09, 2014

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• Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Waiting, Vienna

  Song: Vienna, Album: 12 Gardens Live

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• Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again.

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  Girlfriend, Fall, Love You

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• I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.

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  Musician, Tails, Legs

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• They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria.

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  Believe, Sadness, Eye

  "Summer, Highland Falls". Song by Billy Joel, 1976.

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• Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.

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  Sometimes

  "As 2016 Winds Down, Remembering The Jazz Giants We Lost". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 2, 2016.

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• If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.

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  Might, Crime, Tendencies

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."

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  Song, Stars, Writing

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• The biggest regret? This may be one of those years I have no regrets.

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  Regret, Years, May

  "No 'Pressure' for Billy Joel as he begins tour". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. December 16, 2005.

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• I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.

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  Sex, Play, Ems

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

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  Writing, Goal, Stuff

  Source: www.ew.com

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• Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.

  Billy Joel

  Moving, California, First Impression

  "No 'Pressure' for Billy Joel as he begins tour". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. December 16, 2005.

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