I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
BILLY JOELIt’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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I’m single but interviewing.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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We never could have come this far I took the good times, I’ll take the bad times I’ll take you just the way you are Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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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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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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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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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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I’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.
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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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