Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
BILLY JOELArtist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
BILLY JOELAs an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
BILLY JOELI’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
BILLY JOELThis is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
BILLY JOELAnd you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
BILLY JOELThis is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
BILLY JOELWhen I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
BILLY JOELThey 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.
BILLY JOELDo what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
BILLY JOELThere will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
BILLY JOELSo 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.
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.
BILLY JOELI’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
BILLY JOELThere ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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?
BILLY JOELThere was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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