I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
BILLY JOELIn every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
More Billy Joel Quotes
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you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for
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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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Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
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Musicians know all about unemployment. You’re unemployed a lot, and I think there’s a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.
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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 consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. …
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I don’t belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that’s what’s kept me grounded because I know it’s not right.
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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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Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can’t wait.
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You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
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Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
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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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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.
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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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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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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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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
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Slow down you’re doing fine You can’t be everything you want to be Before your time Although it’s so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it’s the life you lead
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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I am the entertainer, I’ve come to do my show You’ve heard my latest record, it’s been on the radio
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