I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.
BILLY JOELOh, 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.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
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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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Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don’t. I write in hot blood.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I’m totally cool.
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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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If it seems like I’ve been lost in ‘lets remember’, If it seems I’m gettin’ older and missin’ my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.
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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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In hell there’s a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can’t call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.
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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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You may be wrong, but you may be 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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I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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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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Though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right.
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Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.
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