Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
BILLY JOELForced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I’m single but interviewing.
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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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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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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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When I first started I didn’t know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of ’em.
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. 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.
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Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She’s ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
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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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Sometimes that’s what it takes. You’re only human, you’re allowed to make your share of 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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You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes, but they’re the only things that you can truly call your own.
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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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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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