If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
BILLY JOELNo end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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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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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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