I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
BILLY JOELAnd you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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Though it’s crucial to make a living, that shouldn’t be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
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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 watched the mighty skyline fall
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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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 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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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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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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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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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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