I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
BILLY JOELI was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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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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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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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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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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