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.
BILLY JOELyou may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
More Billy Joel Quotes
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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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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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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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 never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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