What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
BILLY JOELI’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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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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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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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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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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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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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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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