I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
BILLY JOELWhy do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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So before we end And then begin We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say, I’ve loved these days.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we’re on the verge of all things new.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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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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I’ve played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.
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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 Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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