I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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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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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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money?
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Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.
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I’ve crashed my car three times.
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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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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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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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I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.
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My songs are like my kids.
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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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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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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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We 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.
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Do what’s good for you Or you’re not good for anybody
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