We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
BILLY JOELThere will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
More Billy Joel Quotes
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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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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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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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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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 am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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Only the good die young.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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