The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
BILLY JOELYou can speak your mind But not on my time.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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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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Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
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People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don’t wanna know about your technical problems, or if you’re not feeling good, they don’t wanna know we have a glitch. It’s their night, you better do something to earn that money.
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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
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You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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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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There’s nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
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I don’t know why people thought I was retiring.
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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won’t although we’ll want to.
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