I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
BILLY JOELWe all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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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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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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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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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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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 really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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