Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
BILLY JOELI hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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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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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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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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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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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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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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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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