every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
BILLY JOELI see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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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 have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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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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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 didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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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 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.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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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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