Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
BILLY JOELLife is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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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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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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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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My songs are like my kids.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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