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.
BILLY JOELStreetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
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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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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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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, “Listen to me.” Now it says, “Look at me.”
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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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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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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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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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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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