Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
BILLY JOELAs 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!
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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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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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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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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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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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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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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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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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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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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