I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
BILLY JOELYou can linger too long in your dreams.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I’m single but interviewing.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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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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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
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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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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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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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