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?
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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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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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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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’m single but interviewing.
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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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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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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And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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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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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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