As an atheist you have to rationalize things… Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can’t, you have no choice but to be good and scared — but that’s okay!
BILLY JOELWorking too hard can give you a heart-attack.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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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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What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
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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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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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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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There was an edge of, ‘Go away kid, you’re bothering me’. I’ve kicked myself a million times since. I could’ve discovered Whitney Houston.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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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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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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