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.
BILLY JOELSome people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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…And you’re the only one who knows.
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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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Sergeant O’Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.
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Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can’t dress trashy ’til you spend a lot of money.
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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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I didn’t graduate high school, so I never got a teacher’s education, I’m mostly self-read, self-taught.
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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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Why don’t the Beatles get back together? Why don’t nobody sing of romance?
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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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Someday we’ll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that’s how you and I will be
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Don’t make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money.
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Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev’rybody loves you now.
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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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Don’t be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.
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There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
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