As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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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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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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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.
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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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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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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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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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