every time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
BILLY JOELI think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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I’m not sure about life after this; god knows I’m not a spiritual man.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can’t take it any more.
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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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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you’re gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.
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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 are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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If you tell kids they can’t have something, that’s what they want.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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