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.
BILLY JOELI’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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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 sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won’t stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
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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 don’t know why I go to extremes.
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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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