I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
BILLY JOELThey say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
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I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
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It should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
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She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.
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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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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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I’m in a New York state of mind
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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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Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.
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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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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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You’ve got yoga, I’ve got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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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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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don’t have that, you’re kidding yourself and your listener.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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Most of my songs are written in one sitting, two sittings maybe. Those are the ones I like the best, anyway.
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I keep telling people: Don’t make me the poster boy for AA because I don’t know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
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Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
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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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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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People in music lie, but they don’t expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.
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