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.”
BILLY JOELYou 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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Only the good die young.
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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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