You can linger too long in your dreams.
BILLY JOELI’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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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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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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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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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts… Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they’re for.
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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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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of mistakes.
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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 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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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
BILLY JOEL