You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
BILLY JOELWe 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 Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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I’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.
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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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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like 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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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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