I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
BILLY JOELRemember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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We’re on the verge of all things new.
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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’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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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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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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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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