As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
BILLY JOELWhen I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Only the good die young.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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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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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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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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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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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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When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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