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.
BILLY JOELYou can’t go the distance with too much resistance
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I’ve tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.
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She’s got a smile that heals me.
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I’m not really sure how it goes / But it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes.’
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Ain’t no rainbows shining on me, shades of gray are the colors I see.
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Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
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I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
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Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
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What if she figures out you’re not very smart?
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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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So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.
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You’re having a hard time and lately you don’t feel so good; You’re getting a bad reputation in your neighborhood. It’s alright, it’s alright.
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I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
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I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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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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