Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
BILLY JOELWorking too hard can give you a heart-attack.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. 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.
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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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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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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 don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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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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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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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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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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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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