I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
BILLY JOELI have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
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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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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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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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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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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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