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
BILLY JOELIn hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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I watched the mighty skyline fall
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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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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Nobody’s telling me, “Yeah, I left.” Everybody says, “You know, I’m there. It’s great. It’s really nice there, and you made our town famous.”
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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Well we’re waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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