I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
BILLY JOEL
They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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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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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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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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