If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
BILLY JOELShe’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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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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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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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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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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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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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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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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