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Billy Joel Quotes
«I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.»
«You may never understandHow the Stranger is inspired,But he is not always evil,And he is not always wrong.Though you drown in good intentions,You will never quench the fire.You'll give in to your desireWhen the Stranger comes along.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
drown, give in, inspired, intentions, quench, quenches, quenching, stranger, Strange Fire, the fire, The Stranger
«We all have a face that we hide away forever,And we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.Some are satin, some are steel, some are silk and some are leather.They're the faces of the stranger and we love to try them on.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
faces, leather, satin, Satins, silk, silks, steel, steels, stranger, The Faces, The Stranger
«If you want to know what life is like in the Soviet Union, go to your local department of motor vehicles»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
department, Department of, local, local department, motor, motoring, motors, soviet, Soviets, Soviet Union, union, vehicles
«Water has an endless horizon; there is no limitation when you look out into the water. There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself as far as it can possibly imagine. I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows of cornfields. There is something exhilarating about it.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
amber, As Far, cornfield, cornfields, endless, grain, horizon, interfere, limitation, look out, Midwest, No Wave, possibly, projecting, rows, waves
«When you look into my eyesAnd you see the crazy gypsy in my soulIt always comes as a surpriseWhen I feel my withered roots begin to growWell I never had a place that I could call my very ownThat's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home»
«If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.»
«There are certain artists who have taken it upon themselves to save the world, and I find that gets tiresome. I think the artist's first obligation is to the art, not to the issues . . . I think if I have something to say the best way to do that is just to tell a damn good story.»
«A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
heavy, Heavy Metal, metal, metals, musician, round of golf, typical
«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!»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
atheist, okay, rationalize, rationalized, scared