If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
BILLY JOELAnd the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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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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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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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.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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I 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.
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