I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
BILLY JOELBlack and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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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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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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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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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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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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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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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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