What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
BILLY JOELI keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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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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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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I would not leave you in your 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.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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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. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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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.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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