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 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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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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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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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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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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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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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 before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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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 believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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