As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
BILLY JOELWe all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I won’t be righteous again. I’m not sure anymore.
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I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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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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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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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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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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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 don’t care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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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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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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