Don’t wait for answers, just take your chances. Don’t ask me why.
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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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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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 definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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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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I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can’t walk away from you.
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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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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
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Hope you don’t think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I’m a piano player. I’m already unplugged.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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This 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.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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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 remember reading about how the decline of the steel industry had been affecting the Lehigh Valley, and I decided that’s what I was going to write the song about.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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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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