Billy Joel Quotes
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I know I'm searching for something Something so undefined That it can only be seen By the eyes of the blind In the middle of the night.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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I'm in a New York state of mind.
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You're having a hard time and lately you don't feel so good; You're getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It's alright, it's alright; Sometimes that's what it takes. You're only human, you're allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.
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She's got a smile that heals me.
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...now as we induldge, in things refined,we hide our hearts, from harder times...
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I was homeless when I was younger and I was suicidal when I was 21. Anything that has happened after that is like water off a duck's back.
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Don't take any shit from anybody!
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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Rolling Stone magazine would not say anything positive about me, and they were the tastemakers at the time. There were people from the old guard who insisted I wasn't a real rock and roller. Well, O.K., fine -- I'm not a real rock and roller. You got me.
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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. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria...
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We didn't start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on and on and on...
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair. . . . I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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.
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She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.