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.
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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every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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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 can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. … My songs are like my kids.
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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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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.
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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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