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.
BILLY JOELDream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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You’ve got your passion. You’ve got your pride. But don’t you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don’t imagine they’ll all come true.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, ‘Son, can you play me a memory?
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I never said I wasn’t going to play any more. I don’t know where that came from.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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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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Sing us a song you’re the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling all right.
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
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Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
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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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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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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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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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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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Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.
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I’m single but interviewing.
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