In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
BILLY JOELKnow what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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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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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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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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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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