I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
BILLY JOELDon’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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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 believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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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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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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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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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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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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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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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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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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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 don’t know why I go to extremes.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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