Billy Joel Quotes
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If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.
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I'm single but interviewing.
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I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.
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There was an edge of, 'Go away kid, you're bothering me'. I've kicked myself a million times since. I could've discovered Whitney Houston.
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You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
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She's got a smile that heals me I don't know why it is But I have to laugh when she reveals me.
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It feels great to have a #1 album.
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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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I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.
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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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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.
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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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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance.
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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've got yoga honey I've got beer You got overpriced And I got weird.