Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
BILLY JOELSomeday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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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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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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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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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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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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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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I’ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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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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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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