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!
BILLY JOELI’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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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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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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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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You’ve got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.
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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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Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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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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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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