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.
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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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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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’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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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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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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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 would not leave you in your times of trouble. 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.
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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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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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