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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.
Billy Joel
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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.
Billy Joel
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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?
Billy Joel
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I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.
Billy Joel
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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.
Billy Joel
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
Billy Joel
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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.
Billy Joel
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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.
Billy Joel
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Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
Billy Joel
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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.
Billy Joel
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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.
Billy Joel
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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.
Billy Joel
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Only the good die young.
Billy Joel
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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that gives us our own small satisfactions.
Billy Joel
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
Billy Joel
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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
Billy Joel
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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.
Billy Joel
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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.
Billy Joel
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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.
Billy Joel
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I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
Billy Joel
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
Billy Joel
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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be Before your time Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it's the life you lead You're so ahead of yourself That you forfeit what you need Though you can see when you're wrong.
Billy Joel
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Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.
Billy Joel
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When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of 'em. But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that's trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
Billy Joel
