I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
BILLY JOELWhy do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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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.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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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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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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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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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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