Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
BILLY JOELI keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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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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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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My songs are like my kids.
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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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 Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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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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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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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