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.
BILLY JOELI’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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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.
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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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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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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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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
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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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