every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
BILLY JOELWhen 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I’m in a New York state of mind
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In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That’s all right, my love, ’cause you’re my home.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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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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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Give us this day our daily discount outlet merchandise…
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