Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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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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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that gives us our own small satisfactions.
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I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.
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They're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinking alone.
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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
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There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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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 keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be.
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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.
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Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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Only the good die young.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.
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I'm kind of in a dark place. And I know some people are actually excited about that, because they think I'll write an album about being sad. But that's not what my music is about. There have been times when I've done that, but I'm not going to do it again.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.