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.
BILLY JOELThis is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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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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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. 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.
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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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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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