You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
BILLY JOELI didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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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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You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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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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Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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