We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
BILLY JOELIt’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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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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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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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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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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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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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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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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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 was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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 there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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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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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
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