every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
BILLY JOELThere ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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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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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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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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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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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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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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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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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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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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