every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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I 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.
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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here’s a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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