Don’t go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
BILLY JOELIf you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things.
More Billy Joel Quotes
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I would not leave you in your times of trouble. 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.
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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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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
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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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Nobody who ever becomes big comes back here.” And I felt so sad for this kid, he seemed so bitter about it. I said, “Well, I’m coming back, no matter what.”
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They say there’s a heaven for those who wait, some say it’s better I say it ain’t.
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So I would choose to be with you. That’s if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you’re the only one who knows.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
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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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I was having a hard time a couple of years ago… I’m a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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You can speak your mind But not on my time.
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I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…
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It’s alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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Don’t go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don’t imagine you’re too familiar And I don’t see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble
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You may be wrong, but you may be right.
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There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
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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.
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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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They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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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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Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it’s either sadness or euphoria.
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I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
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