I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
BILLY JOELDavey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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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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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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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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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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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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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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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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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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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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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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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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