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.
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 have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I’m making more money.
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Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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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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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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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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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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