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.
BILLY JOELSome love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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