Billy Joel Quotes
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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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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance.
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It feels great to have a #1 album.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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.
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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again.
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You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
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...And you're the only one who knows.
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They all want your white body, and they await your reply.But, between you and me, and this Staten Island ferry... so do I...
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I hate making videos. Songs are not visual. You get it out of the air. You don't watch it on MTV.
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For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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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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I don't think of myself as a singer. The only reason I ever got onstage was to meet girls.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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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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Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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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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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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They say that these are not the best of times But they're the only times I've ever known And I believe there is a time for meditation In cathedrals of our own.
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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I ride my own motorcycles, People are like, 'God, the guy is bad enough on cars!' Actually I have a better track record on bikes than I do with cars.