Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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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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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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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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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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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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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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We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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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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