…And you’re the only one who knows.
BILLY JOELI have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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They are sharing a drink called loneliness.
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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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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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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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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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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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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