Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
BILLY JOELevery time I’ve held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
More Billy Joel Quotes
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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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No matter what culture you’re from, everyone loves music.
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I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
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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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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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You can linger too long in your dreams.
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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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When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I’m a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric.
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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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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it’s old junk, it’s still rock and roll to me.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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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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There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
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There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
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My friends and I are crazy. That’s the only thing that keeps us sane!
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