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 JOELThe graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.
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Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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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 haven’t met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I’m discontented about that. I’m angry with myself. I have regrets.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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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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Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.
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Most people you’d tell “I’m gonna be a musician,” they’d say, “you’re crazy, you’re gonna starve, you’re gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you’ll never make it, there’s too much competition.
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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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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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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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You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.
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