I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
BILLY JOELCall you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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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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Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
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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 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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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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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 can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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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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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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I haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.
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