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.
BILLY JOELWe drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don’t know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can’t we learn from all we’ve been through after two thousand years?
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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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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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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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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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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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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
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