I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
BILLY JOELThere ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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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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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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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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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.
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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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 may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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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’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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