There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
BILLY JOELRemember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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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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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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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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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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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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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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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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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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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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