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.
BILLY JOELWe 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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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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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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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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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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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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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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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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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there’s a mass influx from one place, that’s when it becomes problematic for Americans.
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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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I’m in a New York state of mind
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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