Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
BILLY JOELMost people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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I remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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