Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
BILLY JOELWhat will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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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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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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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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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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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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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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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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