Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right.
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And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.
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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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I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.
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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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Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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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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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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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that gives us our own small satisfactions.
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Only the good die young.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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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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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
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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've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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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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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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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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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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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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Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.