We’re on the verge of all things new.
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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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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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.
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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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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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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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