The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
BILLY JOELYou’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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I can’t remember faces, don’t remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
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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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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.
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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.
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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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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 really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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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.
BILLY JOEL