I’ve crashed my car three times.
BILLY JOELShe’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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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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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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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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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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