Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
BILLY JOELOut 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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I don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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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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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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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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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that’s trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
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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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