You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
BILLY JOELArtist – 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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Know what you love and do what you love. If you don’t do what you love, you’re just wasting your time.
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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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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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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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I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
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As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
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My songs are like my kids.
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Only the good die young.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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