They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
BILLY JOELCall me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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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?
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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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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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We’re only human, we’re supposed to make mistakes.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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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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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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