Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
BILLY JOELSome people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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This 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.
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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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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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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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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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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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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