People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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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 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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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams.
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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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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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I don’t want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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You only beat me if you get me to hate.
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I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I’ve been looking for.
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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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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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