We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
BILLY JOELThere will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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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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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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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.’
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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