Billy Joel Quotes
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Sinners are much more fun...
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I'm single but interviewing.
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Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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It feels great to have a #1 album.
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It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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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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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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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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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again.
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Ain't no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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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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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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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She's got a way about her...I don't know what it is... but I know that I can't live without her...
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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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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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I don't think of myself as a singer. The only reason I ever got onstage was to meet girls.
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It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little give and take The New York Times, The Daily News.
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So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break.
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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 stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.
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It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, 'Son, can you play me a memory?/ I'm not really sure how it goes / But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.'