What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
BILLY JOELHonesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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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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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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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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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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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 always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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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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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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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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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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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’m single but interviewing.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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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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