I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.
BILLY JOELIt should be easy for a man who’s strong to say he’s sorry or admit when he’s wrong.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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I said I love you and that’s forever And this I promise from the heart I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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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 Don’t go trying some new fashion Don’t change the color of your hair. […] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
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Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
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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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You’ve given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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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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In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along…
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I don’t know why I go to extremes.
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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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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!
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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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Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn’t mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it’s just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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I’m probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. …
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