So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
BILLY JOELHonesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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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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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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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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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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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
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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…
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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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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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