Billy Joel Quotes
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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I've only felt content a few times in my life, and it never lasted. I'm very discontented right now. There are situations in my life that didn't pan out. I'm like most other human beings. I try and I fail.
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So before we end and then begin, we'll drink a toast to how it's been. A few more hours to be complete, a few more nights on satin sheets. A few more times that I can say, that I've loved these days.
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I know that everybody has a dream Everybody has a dream And this is my dream, my own Just to be at home And to be all alone . . . with you.
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It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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You see firemen, you see cops, and these guys risk their lives everyday. They do this all the time . . . to be able to see a smile on some of these people's faces -- they've gone through so much, they've lost so many of their friends.
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And the word spread of Billy the Kid.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.
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I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
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Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.
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You Catholic girls start much too late But sooner or later it comes down to fate I might as well be the one.
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They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on.
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You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for.
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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
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I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.
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So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got, What went wrong? And if you can't understand why your world is so dead And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed And that's too long.
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I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life Go ahead with your own life and leave me alone.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.
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Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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You may be right I may be crazy But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.
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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!
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.