I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
BILLY JOELSo I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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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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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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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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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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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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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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I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about.
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I’m a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
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I’m writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn’t an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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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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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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