The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
BILLY JOELMost 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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My songs are like my kids.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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